Re-writing cultures and communities: Canadian aboriginal women and the example of Slash

ID:	HARP-420
Title:	Re-writing cultures and communities: Canadian aboriginal women and the example of Slash
Source:	Canadian Issues , v.21 1999 pg 190-207
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Year:	1999
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Keywords:	anti-discrimination, Canada, colonial/colonialism, gender equality, human rights, non-discrimination, civil and political rights, indigenous people, minority rights, self-determination
Abstract:	Aboriginal peoples in Canada really ventured into the field of auto/biographical writing in the 1970’s. Their productions answered the personal needs to recover from the deconstructive experience and outcomes of acculturation. These writings also revisited Aboriginal peoples’ epistemological traditions as they unraveled the threads of internal colonization to assert Aboriginal individual and collective cultural limitation. This is clearly apparent in Jeannette Armstrong’s first novel, Slash. Written in 1985 as a part of the En’owkin School Curriculum Project, this novel provides Aboriginal students with positive role models, teaches them Aboriginal history and also addresses non-Aboriginal readers in its didactic purposes.
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