Maggie Ward - MA Oral Examination
Author: kyle
Posted on May 21, 2018
Category: Thesis Corner
Maggie Ward
"We Have Stuff Enough in Us to Get Better": Healing through Truth Telling in Contemporary Indigenous Women's Literature
- Date: May 23, 2018
- Time: 1:00pm
- Location: Carleton Hall, Room 304
Abstract
Through its analysis of Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman, Katherena Vermette's The Break, and Teacey Lindberg's Birdie, this thesis explores the ways in which Indigenous women's literature works as both a medium of historical and contemporary truth telling, and a medium of healing from ongoing gendered colonial violence. By giving voice to indegenous women's trauma - induced primarily through the racist, patriarchal ideologies of settler colonialism, these writers take up the important, yet challenging task of resisting crasure and (re)asserting Indegenous women's humanity.