Wîhtikow feast : digesting layers of memory and myth in Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen and McLeod's Sons of a Lost River

• Main Author: Adair, Robin Shawn
• Other Authors: Roy, Wendy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2010
• Subjects: First Nations Mythology; First Nations visual art; English literature; Lost River; McLeod; Thunderbird; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09172010-121400

This paper explores and compares the ways in which novelist and playwright Tomson Highway and visual artist and poet Neal McLeod use traditional and contemporary Cree narratives to represent personal and collective cultural experiences, both past and present. In Highway’s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen...