From the Iron House Imprisonment in First Nations Writing

Name: From the Iron House Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
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ISBN: 9781554580217

ISBN-10: 1554580218

ISBN-13: 9781554580217

Edition: 2008

Authors: Deena Rymhs

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List price: $65.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 162
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836

Deena Rymhs is an assistant professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. She has published essays on Canadian literature with a focus on indigenous authors and narratives of incarceration.



Introduction


Barred Subject: Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings


James Tyman's Inside Out: An Autobiography by a Native Canadian


Auto/biographical Jurisdictions: Collaboration, Self-Representation & the Law in Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman


Prison Collections & 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 & Lost Talk: Making Poetry Bear the Burden


Autobiography as Containment: Jane Williss Geniesh: An Indian Girlhood


Conclusion


Index