Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature : Special Issue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774803711 ISBN 13: 9780774803717

Publisher: UBC Press, 1990

Synopsis

Native Writers and Canadian Writing is a co-publication with Canadian Literature -- Canada's foremost literary journal -- of a special double issue which focuses on literature by and about Canada's Native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both Native and non-Native writers. These not only reflect the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing but also direct the reader to the traditional literature from which it springs and which has been largely misunderstood by the non- Native community -- myths, rituals, and songs having been interpreted more often as artistic "curiosities" rather than the masterworks of a different culture. Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature touch on works which range from the eighteenth-century journals of explorer Alexander Mackenzie, to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, and to early writers in Canada such as historian-humourist Thomas Chandler Haliburton.

About this title

About the Author

W.H. New is a professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia and formerly the editor of Canadian Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774803711
• ISBN 13: 9780774803717
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 612
• Editor: New W. H.