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From the iron house : imprisonment in First Nations writing /
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 Aborigina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 institutions. Th |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 146 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435656321 1435656326 9781554581269 1554581265 1771120576 9781771120579 1299313264 9781299313262 |