Cover
Contents
Foreword by Basil H. Johnston
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction
Chapter 1: Acculturation through Education: The Inherent Limits of ‘Assimilationist’ Policy
Chapter 2: Reading Residential School: Native Literary Theory and the Survival Narrative
Chapter 3: "We have been silent too long”: Linguistic Play in Anthony Apakark Thrasher’s Prison Writings
Chapter 4: Analyze, if you wish, but listen”: The Affirmatist Literary Methodology of Rita Joe
Chapter 5: From Trickster Poetics to Transgressive Politics: Substantiating Survivance in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
Conclusion: Creative Interventions in the Residential School Legacy
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index