Magic Weapons

by McKegney, Sam

• ISBN13: 9780887557026
• ISBN10: 0887557023
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Manitoba Pr

Summary

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life-writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree).

Author Biography

Sam McKegney teaches English at Mount Royal College, Calgary

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgements and Permissions	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 3
Acculturation Through Education: The Inherent Limits of 'Assimilationist' Policy	p. 11
Reading Residential School: Native Literary Theory and the Survival Narrative	p. 31
"We Have Been Silent Too Long": Linguistic Play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher's Prison Writings	p. 59
"Analyze, if You Wish, But Listen": The Affirmatist Literary Methodology of Rita Joe	p. 101
From Trickster Poetics to Transgressive Politics: Substantiating Survivanace in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen	p. 137
Conclusion: Creative Interventions in the Residential School Legacy	p. 175
Endnotes	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 235
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