The Survivance in the Literature of the First Nations in Canada
The article examines the way the writers of the First Nations in Canada deal with the issue of survivance which implies a collective resilience. It is based upon a comparison between the first novel of Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan (2011) and the poetry of Rita Mestokosho collected in How I see Life, Gr...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:47de4d29926f4135985e31fed41cac11 2023-05-15T16:14:50+02:00 The Survivance in the Literature of the First Nations in Canada Christophe Premat 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/47de4d29926f4135985e31fed41cac11 EN eng University of Latvia Press https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/288 https://doaj.org/toc/1691-9971 https://doaj.org/toc/2501-0395 1691-9971 2501-0395 https://doaj.org/article/47de4d29926f4135985e31fed41cac11 Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol 9 (2019) survivance invisibility Innu poetic First Nations Literature (General) PN1-6790 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 article 2019 ftdoajarticles 2023-03-19T01:44:49Z The article examines the way the writers of the First Nations in Canada deal with the issue of survivance which implies a collective resilience. It is based upon a comparison between the first novel of Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan (2011) and the poetry of Rita Mestokosho collected in How I see Life, Grandmother, Eshi Uapataman Nukum, Comment je perçois la vie, grand-mère (2011). Both writers belong to a tradition of littérature autochtone in Québec that has become more and more visible since the 1980s. If both writers share the paradigm of decoloniality, their aesthetics remains classical with the use of a minimalist style to express the beauty of the Innu way of life. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada |
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The article examines the way the writers of the First Nations in Canada deal with the issue of survivance which implies a collective resilience. It is based upon a comparison between the first novel of Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan (2011) and the poetry of Rita Mestokosho collected in How I see Life, Grandmother, Eshi Uapataman Nukum, Comment je perçois la vie, grand-mère (2011). Both writers belong to a tradition of littérature autochtone in Québec that has become more and more visible since the 1980s. If both writers share the paradigm of decoloniality, their aesthetics remains classical with the use of a minimalist style to express the beauty of the Innu way of life. |
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The Survivance in the Literature of the First Nations in Canada |
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The Survivance in the Literature of the First Nations in Canada |
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University of Latvia Press |
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