While Canadian First Nations writers have long argued that non-Native authors should stop appropriating Native voices, many non-Native writers have held that such a request constitutes censorship. Listening to Old Woman Speak provides the historical context missing from this debate. Laura Groening examines issues of gender and genre, historical fiction and historical metafiction, and postcolonial theory to provide compelling evidence that it is virtually impossible to escape one's own cultural conditioning. She concludes by listening to what First Nations writers have to say about cultural identity and the need to establish a healing aesthetic.

Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and alterNatives in Canadian Literature (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) (Volume 44)

Literature & Fiction

Groening, Laura Smyth

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

<p>While Canadian First Nations writers have long argued that non-Native authors should stop appropriating Native voices, many non-Native writers have held that such a request constitutes censorship. Listening to Old Woman Speak provides the historical context missing from this debate. Laura Groening examines issues of gender and genre, historical fiction and historical metafiction, and postcolonial theory to provide compelling evidence that it is virtually impossible to escape one's own cultural conditioning. She concludes by listening to what First Nations writers have to say about cultural identity and the need to establish a healing aesthetic.</p>

<p>Drawing heavily on interviews with people who knew him, and on correspondence, examines the career of Canadian literary critic Brown (1905-51), who was at the center of the country's intellectual life for two decades, raised the status of North American literature in the international community, and was instrumental in furthering the careers of many contemporary writers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict

Excelsior Music Pub Co

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Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and alterNatives in Canadian Literature (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) (Volume 44)

Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and alterNatives in Canadian Literature (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) (Volume 44)

E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict