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Author Rymhs, Deena, 1975-

Title From the iron house : imprisonment in First Nations writing / Deena Rymhs
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 146 pages)
Series Aboriginal studies series
Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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
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 institutions. Th
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index
Notes English
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Subject Imprisonment in literature.
Indians in literature.
Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Canadian literature -- Indian authors
Imprisonment in literature
Indians in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435656321
1435656326
9781554581269
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9781771120579
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