Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and alterNatives in Canadian Literature clothing_footwear paintings by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

paintings by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish)

She traces the main features of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how this cultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of the frontier

Washington State University)

is a national bestseller and won a Canadian Culinary Books award in 2011

and the remainder of the authors are specialists of Aboriginal studies from various academic departments (English

Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and alterNatives in Canadian Literature clothing_footwear paintings by Lawrence Paul YuxweluptunWhile 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