Contemporary Achievements
Contextualizing Canadian Aboriginal Literatures
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2014
Book
334 pages
978-3-95786-009-5 (ISBN)
Description
In a 1991 publication, Native authors described the beginnings of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada as a set of "Contemporary Challenges." Since then, works by First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers have proliferated and prospered. Authors have moved from "writing back" and "writing home" to "writing beyond." Essays collected in this volume discuss Canadian Aboriginal Literatures from a European perspective, and by contextualizing them historically and internationally, they document and celebrate recent developments as astounding "Contemporary Achievements."