Indigenous Literatures

Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review proudly presents a TLEF-supported learning resource, Indigenous Literatures in Canada. As part of the CanLit Guides project, this guide uses Canadian Literature’s online archives to encourage students to consider the complicated relationship between colonialism, literature, history, culture, and language.

Indigenous Literatures in Canada includes case studies of The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway, Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King, Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, and a discussion of the visual poetry of Shane Rhodes and Jordan Abel.

A team at Canadian Literature curated and developed this guide. The guide was produced at the Canadian Literature offices at the University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus, on ancestral, traditional, and unceded Musqueam territory.

An Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada

An Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada

May 9, 2016

In Canadian Literature’s groundbreaking 1990 special issue, Native Writers & Canadian Writing, W. H. New argues in his editorial that “Power declares; it doesn’t readily listen” (4). At the time,Canadian Literature still represented the power of the Canadian literary establishment, but for this issue the journal attempted to critically listen and engage with Indigenous writers, rather than speak over them. By implication, this shift also means the journal asked its readership to become willing listeners about Indigenous literature, in all its contradictions and complications.

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