From Oral to Written
A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 19802010
Will be published approx. on 16. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-77201-188-3 (ISBN)
Description
Profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voice from their own perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77201-188-3 (9781772011883)
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Persons
Tomson Highway is a writer from northern Manitoba. His best-known works are the plays The Rez Sisters, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Rose, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, and The (Post) Mistress, as well as the best-selling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen. He writes in three languages: Cree (his mother tongue), French, and English. As a classically trained pianist (who also writes music), he has studied with some of the finest teachers in Canada, most notably William Aide and Anton Kuerti.