Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal LiteratureRenate Eigenbrod, Jo-Ann Episkenew Creating Community is a special book about imagination and challenge. We know that writers try to tell us things. We know that what they tell is culturally-based. But what exactly are Aboriginal authors trying to tell us? Fifteen authors and scholars discuss Aboriginal literature in it's unique Canadian context |
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