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One of the most exciting developments in Canadian literature is the increasing voice of Native Indian writers. Born from a need to tell the bloody colonial truth (it's not all log cabins and costumed workers) and a desire to share and celebrate the wealth of their own cultures, Native Indian work produced since the 1980s or so includes some powerful and challenging novels, stories, plays and poetry. It's literature that breaks new ground and old rules, much of it drawing from the rich Native Indian tradition of oral storytelling. Some particularly strong work is being produced by women.
Like other Native Indian writers, Campbell emphasizes the need for authors to reclaim their own language. Many writers are angered at the appropriation of Native Indian stories by European authors. After having their land taken and their culture undermined, many saw the 'stealing' of their own stories as the last straw - the irony being that it is non-Native Indians who need those stories and the values they speak of the most.
The struggle for Native Indian self-determination was explored by Jeannette Armstrong in her internationally acclaimed novel Slash, published in 1985. Also successful was Beatrice Culleton's 1983 novel/n Search of April Raintree, about the lives of two Metis girls. Another recommended novel is Ruby Slipperjack's Honour the Sun. Published in 1987, it charts the development of a young girl growing'up in an isolated, fractured community. In 1992 she published Silent Words. Thompson Highway has also been internationally recognised for his two very successful plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Though Highway, who sees theatre as a natural extension of the storytelling medium, is perhaps the most widely known Native Indian playwright, he is just one of many working across the country. In 1998 his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, appeared. Ian Ross won the governor general's award for his play FareWell, which played in Toronto in 1998.
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One of the most exciting developments in Canadian literature is the increasing voice of Native Indian writers. Born from a need to tell the bloody colonial truth (it's not all log cabins and costumed workers) and a desire to share and celebrate the wealth of their own cultures, Native Indian work produced since the 1980s or so includes some powerful and challenging novels, stories, plays and poetry. It's literature that breaks new ground and old rules, much of it drawing from the rich Native Indian tradition of oral storytelling. Some particularly strong work is being produced by women.
Like other Native Indian writers, Campbell emphasizes the need for authors to reclaim their own language. Many writers are angered at the appropriation of Native Indian stories by European authors. After having their land taken and their culture undermined, many saw the 'stealing' of their own stories as the last straw - the irony being that it is non-Native Indians who need those stories and the values they speak of the most.
The struggle for Native Indian self-determination was explored by Jeannette Armstrong in her internationally acclaimed novel Slash, published in 1985. Also successful was Beatrice Culleton's 1983 novel/n Search of April Raintree, about the lives of two Metis girls. Another recommended novel is Ruby Slipperjack's Honour the Sun. Published in 1987, it charts the development of a young girl growing'up in an isolated, fractured community. In 1992 she published Silent Words. Thompson Highway has also been internationally recognised for his two very successful plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Though Highway, who sees theatre as a natural extension of the storytelling medium, is perhaps the most widely known Native Indian playwright, he is just one of many working across the country. In 1998 his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, appeared. Ian Ross won the governor general's award for his play FareWell, which played in Toronto in 1998.
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