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Sôhkêyihta

Louise Bernice Halfe
S hk yihta Book PDF

Author : Louise Bernice Halfe
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771123518

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Sôhkêyihta by Louise Bernice Halfe Pdf

“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time” — “The Crooked Good” Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sôhkêyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfe’s career, aimed at helping readers move forward from the darkness into a place of healing. Halfe’s own afterword is an evocative meditation on the Cree word sôhkêyihta: Have courage. Be brave. Be strong. She writes of coming into her practice as a poet and the stories, people, and experiences that gave her courage and allowed her to construct her “lair.” She also reflects on her relationship with nêhiyawêwin, the Cree language, and the ways in which it informs her relationships and poetics. The introduction by David Gaertner situates Halfe’s writing within the history of whiteness and colonialism that works to silence and repress Indigenous voices. Gaertner pays particular attention to the ways in which Halfe addresses, incorporates, and pushes back against silence, and suggests that her work is an act of bearing witness – what Kwagiulth scholar Sarah Hunt identifies as making Indigenous lives visible.

Blue Marrow

Louise Halfe
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Author : Louise Halfe
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781550503043

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The struggle of Native American peoples after the arrival of the Europeans is well documented, even in poetry. Yet Blue Marrow introduces a unique voice and perspective to this tension, one that is poignant and simultaneously reminiscent of all that is already familiar. In this haunting collection, Halfe brings to light the hypocrisy shaped by the conflict of Christianity and tradition-unique, informative, artistic and memorable, a combination worthy of note. (KLIATT).

The Crooked Good

Louise Halfe
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Author : Louise Halfe
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781550503722

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Additional keywords : Aboriginal peoples, First Nations, women.

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Daniel Heath Justice
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter Book PDF

Author : Daniel Heath Justice
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771121781

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Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future. This provocative volume challenges readers to critically consider and rethink their assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics while never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity and the power of story to effect personal and social change. Written with a generalist reader firmly in mind, but addressing issues of interest to specialists in the field, this book welcomes new audiences to Indigenous literary studies while offering more seasoned readers a renewed appreciation for these transformative literary traditions.

Burning in this Midnight Dream

Louise Bernice Halfe
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Author : Louise Bernice Halfe
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781550506662

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Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe Pdf

In heart-wrenching detail, Louise Halfe recalls the damage done by the residential schools to her parents, her family, and herself in her new poetry collection.

All These Roads

Louis Dudek
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Author : Louis Dudek
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554580392

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A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek’s poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek’s poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readings, reviews, commercial presses, and academic conferences. The poems in this selection—witty satires, short lyrics, and long sequences—reflect self-consciously on the relationship between art and life and will draw readers into the dramatic mid-century literary and cultural debates in which Dudek was an important participant. Karis Shearer’s introduction provides an overview of Dudek’s prolific career as poet, professor, editor, publisher, and critic, and considers the ways in which Dudek’s functional poems help, both formally and thematically, to carry out the tasks associated with those roles. Comparing Dudek’s reception to that of NourbeSe Philip, Marilyn Dumont, and Roy Miki, Frank Davey’s afterword locates Dudek in a pre-1980s version of multiculturalism that is more complex than many critics would have it. According to Davey, Dudek broadened the limits on the possible range and type of poetry for subsequent generations of Canadian writers.

Post-glacial

Robert Kroetsch
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Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771124287

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Post-glacial by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch’s career. The book contains an afterword by Aritha van Herk. Kroetsch’s poetry evolved from short lyric poetry in the 1960s to postmodern long poems in the 1970s and 80s. Kroetsch’s work in the 1990s and 2000s was marked by the production of experimental chapbooks. Yet it is in the 2000s that Kroetsch’s celebrated The Hornbooks of Rita K and his final collection, Too Bad, were published. Post-glacial presents the material in a thematic arc that follows daily, seasonal, and biographical topics. The collection moves from moods of morning, spring, and youth to shades of darkness, winter, and mourning. In the introduction, Eso charts Kroetsch’s early attempts at poetry in his teenage and undergraduate years. Eso takes the title Post-glacial from the poem “Lonesome Writer Diptych” and proposes the term as an alternative to “postmodernism,” a term often used by critics to describe Kroetsch’s work. Post-glacial emphasizes the poet’s interest in landscape, ecology, history, the presence of absence, and the endurance of a living past.

By Word of Mouth

Dennis Cooley
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Author : Dennis Cooley
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554587407

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Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In By Word of Mouth, a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, is about our time and our place. Nicole Markotić’s introductory essay discusses how Dennis Cooley plays with poetic reference, inspires with syntactical surprises, parodies contemporary writing, and indulges in wild, celebratory puns. This book roams around Dennis Cooley’s poetical world and invites the reader to play along.

Bear Bones & Feathers

Louise Bernice Halfe
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Author : Louise Bernice Halfe
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781550505023

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Among her healing arts are Native symbolism and history, the memories of her childhood on the reserve, and her own dark brand of humour. Like Tomson HIghway and Thomas King, Halfe is actively involved in reclaiming the long overlooked Native comedic tradition. Her poems about the erosion of old ways, the terrors of residential school and hth pain inflicted by alcoholism abound with satiric portraits and shared jokes, yet pierce the heart with their truthfulness. Her angriest poems, infused with dark humour, are written in a Cree-inflected English she calls her "grassroots tongue." It is with this voice that she comes to terms with the legacy of Catholicism in the moving poems "ten hail mary's" and "dear poop."

DisPlace

Nduka Otiono
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Author : Nduka Otiono
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771125390

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DisPlace by Nduka Otiono Pdf

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions and places African intellectual history at the forefront of an engagement with Western poetics. The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley’s introduction contextualizes Otiono's work within the frame of diaspora and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism, attending to form as well as his political engagement. The volume concludes with an afterword written by the poet with Chris Dunton.

Certain Details

Nelson Ball
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Author : Nelson Ball
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771122740

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Certain Details by Nelson Ball Pdf

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball’s poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes his trademark minimalist poems in addition to longer works and sequences; it spans nature poems, homages, meditations, narratives, found poems, and visual poems. The book contains selections from all of Ball’s major collections as well as works that have previously appeared only in chapbook or ephemeral form. In a generous and thoughtful afterword, and for the first time in print, Ball discusses his processes, influences, and aesthetics. The book is introduced by editor and poet Stuart Ross, who offers a personal entry point into Nelson Ball’s extraordinary oeuvre.

Read, Listen, Tell

Sophie McCall,Deanna Reder,David Gaertner,Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
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Author : Sophie McCall,Deanna Reder,David Gaertner,Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771123020

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Read, Listen, Tell by Sophie McCall,Deanna Reder,David Gaertner,Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill Pdf

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America). From short fiction to as-told-to narratives, from illustrated stories to personal essays, these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation. Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant, the stories explore core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land, language, and community, the variety of narrative forms, and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression. Rich in insight and bold in execution, the stories proclaim the diversity, vitality, and depth of Indigenous writing. Building on two decades of scholarly work to centre Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands. It includes stories by acclaimed writers like Thomas King, Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, and Eden Robinson, a new generation of emergent writers, and writers and storytellers who have often been excluded from the canon, such as French- and Spanish-language Indigenous authors, Indigenous authors from Mexico, Chicana/o authors, Indigenous-language authors, works in translation, and “lost“ or underappreciated texts. In a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage, this collection is a testament to Indigenous resilience and creativity. It shows that the ways in which we read, listen, and tell play key roles in how we establish relationships with one another, and how we might share knowledges across cultures, languages, and social spaces.

Current, Curriculum

Rita Wong
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Author : Rita Wong
Publisher : Laurier Poetry
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1771124431

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Current, Curriculum by Rita Wong Pdf

Current, Climate collects the poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley's introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong's poetry in its literary and cultural contexts.

Unsettling the Settler Within

Paulette Regan
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Author : Paulette Regan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859646

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Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan Pdf

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience. Today’s truth and reconciliation processes must make space for an Indigenous historical counter-narrative in order to avoid perpetuating a colonial relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers all Canadians – both Indigenous and not – a new way of approaching the critical task of healing the wounds left by the residential school system.

A Casual Reconstruction

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0994036116

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A Casual Reconstruction explores open conversation to examine the relationship between language, identity and human connection. Driven by the desire to have an honest discussion about Indigenous identity/mixed identity, artist Nadia Myre invites viewers on an intimate journey to probe the meaning of cultural distinctiveness. The interweaving of video projection and audio narratives serves as an intriguing rumination in understanding the meaning of belonging and the importance of the art of listening.