| Native Literature in Canada From the Oral Tradition to the Present is a survey of the literature of Indians and Metis writing in English. The author offers this critical study of Native literature as a beginning analysis of this growing field. She comments on the oratory, sermons, petitions, letters, journals, autobiographies, historical and travel writings, and journalism, as well as short stories, novels, poetry, drama, traditional stories and essays by Native writers from the seventeenth century to 1989. Limited quotations are provided. The recent publications of contemporary writers such as Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton, Basil Johnston, Daniel David Moses, Tomson Highway and Thomas King receive attention in this groundbreaking literature analysis. Recommended for senior high school and college and university Native Literature courses. OUT OF PRINT |
