More than Where the Heart Is: Meeting Places in Wabanaki Poetry by Cheryl Savageau and Mihku Paul
New kinds of meeting places in contemporary Indigenous writing from the East emerge in creative writing by Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) and Mihku Paul (Maliseet). The reimagined personal, family, and community stories in their poems include Indigenous perspectives on Canadian-American migrations, inter...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs.49.2.133 2023-12-31T09:58:16+01:00 More than Where the Heart Is: Meeting Places in Wabanaki Poetry by Cheryl Savageau and Mihku Paul Lacombe, Michèle 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.49.2.133 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.49.2.133 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 49, issue 2, page 133-149 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2015 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.49.2.133 2023-12-01T08:17:48Z New kinds of meeting places in contemporary Indigenous writing from the East emerge in creative writing by Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) and Mihku Paul (Maliseet). The reimagined personal, family, and community stories in their poems include Indigenous perspectives on Canadian-American migrations, interracial relations, and the displacement of Indigenous languages by French and English. The attention they pay to the effects of colonial and neo-colonial realities is counterbalanced by instances of resistance and resurgence in their writing. Both poets are mixed-blood women born in the 1950s, living in the United States, possessing ties to Canada, and engaged in dialogue with other Wabanaki writers and community members. The author’s approach to their work is indebted to received traditions as revisited by three Indigenous academics—Abenaki writer and scholar Joseph Bruchac on survival strategies, Abenaki literary historian Lisa Brooks on the gathering place, and Cherokee literary historian Daniel Heath Justice on concepts of kinship. Collectively, these poets and essayists illustrate what settler scholar Siobhan Senier refers to as the continued presence of Indigenous Nations in Atlantic Canada and New England. Article in Journal/Newspaper abenaki Maliseet University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 49 2 133 149 |
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New kinds of meeting places in contemporary Indigenous writing from the East emerge in creative writing by Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) and Mihku Paul (Maliseet). The reimagined personal, family, and community stories in their poems include Indigenous perspectives on Canadian-American migrations, interracial relations, and the displacement of Indigenous languages by French and English. The attention they pay to the effects of colonial and neo-colonial realities is counterbalanced by instances of resistance and resurgence in their writing. Both poets are mixed-blood women born in the 1950s, living in the United States, possessing ties to Canada, and engaged in dialogue with other Wabanaki writers and community members. The author’s approach to their work is indebted to received traditions as revisited by three Indigenous academics—Abenaki writer and scholar Joseph Bruchac on survival strategies, Abenaki literary historian Lisa Brooks on the gathering place, and Cherokee literary historian Daniel Heath Justice on concepts of kinship. Collectively, these poets and essayists illustrate what settler scholar Siobhan Senier refers to as the continued presence of Indigenous Nations in Atlantic Canada and New England. |
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