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From the iron house : imprisonment in First Nations writing / Deena Rymhs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rymhs, Deena, 1975-
- Series:
- Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
- Aboriginal studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Imprisonment in literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
- Off-reservation boarding schools.
- Prisoners' writings, Canadian--History and criticism.
- Prisoners' writings, Canadian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading ""the carceral""-that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their instit
- Contents:
- Barred subject: Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings
- James Tyman's Inside out: An autobiography by a native Canadian
- Auto/biographical jurisdictions: collaboration, self-representation, and the law in Stolen life: The journey of a Cree woman
- Prison collections and periodicals
- A residential school memoir: Basil Johnston's Indian school days
- It is the law: Disturbing the authoritative word in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the fur queen
- Hated structures and lost talk: Making poetry bear the burden
- Autobiography as containment: Jane Willis's Geniesh: An Indian girlhood
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-138) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781771120579
- 1771120576
- 9781299313262
- 1299313264
- 9781554581269
- 1554581265
- 9781435656321
- 1435656326
- OCLC:
- 244637464
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