Listening to Old Woman Speak
Listening to Old Woman Speak

Author: Laura Smyth Groening

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005-01-18

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0773572228

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Groening argues that what Frantz Fanon terms the "manichean allegory" has shaped European understanding of the New World to such an extent that the image patterns fundamental to the allegory continue to dominate depictions of Native characters. Although a world separated into two categories defined by light and dark, reason and emotion, mind and body, technology and nature, future and past is no longer also characterized as good and evil, revaluing the tropes has not made them disappear. And without their disappearance, good intentions notwithstanding, nonaboriginal Canadian writers will continue to portray Native characters as part of a dead and dying culture. Groening demonstrates that the real issue cannot be about censorship as censorship involves the abrogation of freedom, and the imagination is never truly free.

Plunder, Profit, and Paroles
Plunder, Profit, and Paroles

Author: George Sheppard

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780773511378

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Reviewing the claims submitted for damages attributed to the fighting, he argues that British forces as well as enemy troops were responsible for widespread destruction of private property and concludes that this explains why there was little increase in anti-American feeling after the war.