From the iron house : imprisonment in First Nations writing /

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Author / Creator:Rymhs, Deena, 1975-
Imprint:Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 146 pages)
Language:English
Series:Aboriginal studies series
Aboriginal studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11176671
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ISBN:9781435656321
1435656326
9781554581269
1554581265
9781554580217
1554580218
1771120576
9781771120579
1299313264
9781299313262
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading "the carceral"--That is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their institutions. Th.
Other form:Print version: Rymhs, Deena, 1975- From the iron house. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2008 9781554580217 1554580218