Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School [Paperback]

Sam McKegney (Author)

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Paperback: 1 pages
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press (Nov 1 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0887557023
ISBN-13: 978-0887557026
Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 22.7 x 1.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #215,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Canadian > Native Literature
- #63 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Native American
- #77 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Canadian > History & Criticism

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The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi’kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree). Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide. By treating Indigenous life-writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous life-writings are culturally generative in ways that go beyond disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential school Canada.

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Sam McKegney is a teacher and scholar of Indigenous and Canadian literature at Queen’s University.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A highly recommended addition to Native American studies shelves., April 2 2008

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Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School is a survey of what writings by Canada's indigenous population have to say about the destructive legacy of its residential school system, including the system's attacks on native culture and its negative repercussions as embodied in domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and high suicide rates. The individual writings studied include Anthony Apakark Thrasher's prison compositions, and Tomson Highway's "Kiss of the Fur Queen". A harsh indictment of the weaknesses of "assimilationist" policy, noting the incidences of "survival narratives" among those who made it through residential school, Magic Weapons is an invaluable political as well as literary commentary, persuasively arguing that indigenous life writings are culturally formative in ways beyond simple disclosure. A highly recommended addition to Native American studies shelves.

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