The Emma LaRocque reader : on being human / edited by Elaine Coburn ; foreword by Armand Ruffo ; afterword by Emma LaRocque.
| Author/creator | LaRocque, Emma, 1949- author |
| Other author | Coburn, Elaine, 1975- editor |
| Other author | Ruffo, Armand Garnet, writer of foreword |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2025] |
| Description | xxxvii, 305 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. Selections. |
| Contents | 1975 A Personal Essay on Poverty -- 1986 The Métis in English Canadian Literature -- 1988 On the Ethics of Publishing Historical Documents -- 1989 Racism Runs Through Canadian Society -- 1990 Preface: Here Are Our Voices: Who Will Hear? -- 1990 Geese (poem) -- 1990 Nostalgia (poem) -- 1990 "Progress" (poem) -- 1990 The Red in Winter (poem) -- 1990 Incongruence (poem) -- 1990 Loneliness (poem) -- 1990 Beggar (poem) -- 1990 Tides, Towns and Trains -- 1992 My Hometown Northern Canada South Africa (poem) -- 1993 Violence in Aboriginal Communities -- 1994 Long Way from Home (poem) -- 1996 The Colonization of a Native Woman Scholar -- 2001 Native Identity and the Métis: Otehpayimsuak Peoples -- 2001 From the Land to the Classroom -- 2004 When the "Wild West" Is Me -- 2006 Sweeping (poem) -- 2006 Sources of Inspiration: The Birth of "For the Love of Words": Aboriginal Writers of Canada -- 2007 Métis and Feminist -- 2009 Reflections on Cultural Continuity Through Aboriginal Women's Writings -- 2010 Native Writers Reconstruct: Pushing Paradigms -- 2013 For the Love of Place -- Not Just Any Place: Selected Métis Writings -- 2015 "Resist No Longer": Reflections on Resistance Writing and Teaching -- 2015 Contemporary Métis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation -- 2016 Colonialism Lived -- 2017 Powerlines (poem) -- 2022 Wehsakehcha, Comics, Shakespeare and the Dictionary. |
| Abstract | "At home I grew up Cree with Wehsehkehcha; in schools my senses and intellect were overrun with Settlers and Savages and neither knew anything about Wehsehkehcha, rendering me an 'alien' in my own home/land - Emma LaRocque. Emma LaRocque is a Métis feminist, born in 1949 in Lac La Biche in Western Canada. She grew up speaking Cree, in the one-room kerosene-lit log cabin built by her father. Age nine, she fought her parents to go to school, where she encountered English and cowboys and Indians. Living the contradictions of colonialism -- her own experiences and those of the imaginary "Indian" of schoolbooks and Hollywood films -- led her to become a scholar and poet. Her previous book, Defeathering the Indian (1975) deconstructs stereotypes of Native peoples in the public school curriculum, and When the Other is Me (2010) explores Indigenous literature in Canada. In this volume, LaRocque's selected writings and poetry over a half-century are brought together for the first time. Like Edward Said's Orientalism and Albert Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized, LaRocque offers vital insights into colonialism, racism, and sexism. Her poetry challenges the injustices of "My Hometown Northern Canada South Africa", while celebrating the beauty of the blueberry hills of her childhood. LaRocque's work stands with the best of Indigenous Studies and the most vital contributions of postcolonial literature. Her work invites us to learn from a voice that is at once singular and universal, grappling with the contradictions of the human condition in and beyond Canada's colonial context."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: LaRocque, Emma, 1949- Emma LaRocque reader. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025 1487551908 9781487551902 |
| ISBN | 9781487551889 |
| ISBN | 9781487564452 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1487564457 |
| ISBN | 1487551886 |
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