The Native in Literature

Oakville, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 232pp w index. Dark blue cloth w gold lettering on spine. Moderate rubbing to corners, head and tail. 1cm tear to head. Binding square and sound. Single library stamp on title page; no other library markings, internal or external Introduction (Thomas King). Romantic Nationalism and the Image of Native People in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature (Margery Fee). Imagining Natives: White Perspectives on Native Peoples (Eli Mandel). An Intolerable Burden of Meaning: Native Peoples in White Fiction (Gordon Johnston). Fear and Temptation: Images of Indigenous Peoples in Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Literature (Terry Goldie). Visions and Revisions: Contemporary Writers and Exploration Accounts of Indigenous Peoples (Leslie Monkman). Religious Images on Non-whites in English-Canadian Literature: Charles Gordon and Rudy Wiebe ( Terrence Craig). The Metis in the Fiction of Margaret Laurence: From Outcast to Consort (Angelika Maeser-Lemieux). Listening for Silence: Native Women's Traditional Narratives (Barbara Godard). Oral Influences in Contemporary Inuit Literature (Robin McGrath). The Imposition of Western Definitions of Literature on Indian Oral Traditions (George L. Cornell). Making Faces: Defiance and Humour in Campbell's Halfbreed and Welch's Winter in the Blood (Kate Vangen). Ti-Jean and the Seven-Headed Dragon: Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore (Jarold Ramsey).

Papers presented at the Native in Literature conference held at the University of Lethbridge in 1984