TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoy,Helen
TI  - How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada 
SN  - 9780802084019
AV  - PR9188 
U1  - 813/.50897071 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Canadian fiction
KW  - Indian authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Helen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and outsider in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Drawing on post-colonial, feminist, post-structuralist and First Nations theory, it explores the problems involved in reading and teaching a variety of works by Native women writers from the perspective of a cultural outsider. In each chapter, Hoy examines a particular author and text in order to address some of the basic theoretical questions of reader location, cultural difference, and cultural appropriation, finally concluding that these Native authors have refused to be confined by identity categories such as 'woman' or 'Native,' and have themselves provided a critical voice guiding how their texts might be read and taught.Hoy has written a thoughtful and original work, combining theoretical and textual analysis with insightful and witty personal and pedagogical narratives, as well as poetic and critical epigraphs - the latter of which function as counterpoint to the scholarly argument. The analysis is self-reflexive, making issues of difference and power ongoing subjects of investigation, which interact with the literary texts themselves, and which render the readings more clearly local, partial, and accountable. This highly imaginative volume will appeal to Canadianists, feminists, and the growing number of scholars in the field of Native Studies
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