Chapter one. Religion and the colonial world
The native of the land is still a strangerThe native of the land is in no man’s land.—Rita Joe I The Oxford Dictionary defines the word stranger as a “foreigner, a person in a country or town or company that he does not belong to.” Rita Joe is Mi’kmaq, a poet born of a community of people who have l...
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Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
2017
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| Online Access: | http://books.openedition.org/uop/2070 |
| Summary: | The native of the land is still a strangerThe native of the land is in no man’s land.—Rita Joe I The Oxford Dictionary defines the word stranger as a “foreigner, a person in a country or town or company that he does not belong to.” Rita Joe is Mi’kmaq, a poet born of a community of people who have lived in the region of Acadia for at least five thousand years. She is also a stranger. She has experienced the ambiguity of the post-Columbian world, as one who knows her home has been re-created. |
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