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by Sam McKegney; Foreword by Basil Johnston

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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).

Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide. By treating Indigenous life-writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous life-writings are culturally generative in ways that go beyond disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential school Canada.

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  • Title Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School
  • Author Sam McKegney; Foreword by Basil Johnston
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, MB
  • Publication date 2007-11-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780887557026 / 0887557023
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.11 x 8.93 x 0.67 in (15.52 x 22.68 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Canadiana
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Off-reservation boarding schools - Canada, Indians in literature
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.989

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 67
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