This is a suggested list of books I should read through for my Comps, date tentatively set for Winter 2023. As I read through, I will be posting brief summaries of my initial thoughts and feelings about the texts and will link to each narrative. This is not an academic review, but rather, a personal reflection. I hope this will help me keep organized and flesh out any reoccurring themes, connection, etc between texts. Wish me luck.
***This is not meant to be a final, academic review – this is a process!***
List 1: Primary Texts
Poetry: Representative Selections by
- Abel, Jordan – Injun
- Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri – My Heart is a Stray Bullet
- Annharte, Marie Annharte – indigena awry
- Armstrong, Jeanette – Breath Tracks
- Belcourt, Billy Ray – This World is a Wound
- Chrystos – In Her I Am
- Diaz, Natalie – Postcolonial Love Poem
- Dumont, Marilyn – A Really Good Brown Girl
- Francis, Marvin – city treaty: a long poem
- Half, Louise –Bear Bones & Feathers
- Harjo, Joy – Conflict Resolution
- Johnson, Pauline – Flint & Feather
- Joe, Rita – Lnu and Indians We’re Called
- Moses, Daniel David – A Small Essay of the Largeness of Light and Other Poems
- Ortiz, Simon – A Good Journey
- Proulx-Turner. Sharron – What The Auntys Say
- Ruffo, Armand Garnet – The Thunderbird Poems
- Scofield, Gregory – Kipocihkân
- Tapahonso, Lucy – Blue Horses Rush In
- Vermette, Katherena – North End Love Songs
Prose Narrative:
Alootook Ipellie, Arctic Dreams and Nightmares
Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, In Search of April Raintree
Beth Brant, Food and Spirits
Cherie Dimaline, Red Rooms
D’Arcy McNickel, The Surrounded
Dawn Dumont, Nobody Cries at Bingo
Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
Edward Ahenakew, Voices of the Plains Cree
James Welch, Winter in the Blood
Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
Jeanette Armstrong, Slash
John Joseph Matthews, Sundown
Katherena Vermette, The Break
Lee Maracle, Ravensong
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit
Lorne Simon, Stones and Switches
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Lydia Campbell, Sketches of a Labrador Life by a Labrador Woman
Maria Campbell, Halfbreed
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
Richard Van Camp, the Lesser Blessed
Richard Wagamese, Keeper n’Me
Ruby Slipperjack, Honour the Sun
Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
Tomson Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tracey Lindberg, Birdie
Warren Cariou, Lake of the Prairies
Yvonne Johnson & Rudy Wiebe, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
Drama:
Daniel David Moses, Almighty Voice and his Wife
Drew Hayden Taylor, AlterNatives
Ian Ross, fareWel
Kenneth T. Williams, Café Daughter
Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes
Maria Campbell, Jessica
Marie Clements, Burning Vision
Monique Mojica, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots
Tomson Highway, either The Rez Sisters or Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Yvette Nolan, Annie Mae’s Movement
DraMétis: three Métis plays
Non-Fiction:
Abraham Ulrikab, The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab, ed. Hartmut Lutz
Anahareo, Devil in Deerskins
Basil Johnston, The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibways
Basil Johnston, Indian School Days
Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One.
Brian Maracle, Back on the Rez
Christy Jordan-Fenton, Fatty Legs: A True Story
George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh), Life, Letters and Speeches
Howard Cardinal, The Unjust Society
Howard Adams, Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
Janet Campbell Hale, Bloodlines
Lee Maracle, I Am Woman
Mini Aodla Freeman, Life Among the Qallunaat
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Robert Arthur Alexie, Porcupines and China Dolls
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian
Thomas King, The Truth About Stories
Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
Zitkála-Šá, American Indian Stories
Storytelling:
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World, trans. Robert Bringhurst
Alexander Wolfe, Earth Elder Stories
Beverly Hungry Wolf, The Ways of My Grandmothers
Henry Penner, Call Me Hank (Eds. K. Carlson and K. Fagan)
Harry Robinson, Write It On Your Heart
Julie Cruikshank, Life Lived Like a Story
Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
Maria Campbell, Stories of the Road Allowance People
Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America, ed. Brian Swann
Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas, ed. Jerome Rothernberg
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List 2: Literary + Cultural Criticism
Daniel Francis, The Imaginary Indian
Daniel Heath Justice, Our Fire Survives the Storm
Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Deanna Reder, ed. Troubling Tricksters
Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me
Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses
Craig Womack, Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism
Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Funny
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner, and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice.
Greg Sarris, Keeping Slug Woman Alive
Helen Hoy, How Should I Read These?
Jo-Ann Episkenew, Taking Back Our Spirits
Keavy Martin, Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature
Kim Anderson, Life Stages and Native Women
Leanne Simpson, Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back
Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Renate Eigenbrod, Travelling Knowledges
Renate Eigenbrod and Renee Hulan, Aboriginal Oral Traditions
Robert Berkhofer, The White Man’s Indian
Robert Warrior, Tribal Secrets
Sam McKegney, Magic Weapons
Sophie McCall, First Person Plural
Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey, Stolen From Our Embrace
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Aboriginal Drama and Theatre, ed. Rob Appleford
(Ad)dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literature, ed. Armand Garnet Ruffo
Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in Canada, ed. Heather Mcfarlane and Armand Garnet Ruffo
Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaches to Indigenous Literatures, ed. Deanna Reder and Linda Morra
Looking at the Words of Our People, ed. Jeannette Armstrong
American Indian Literary Nationalism, ed. Jace Weaver, Craig Womack, and Robert Warrior.
Reasoning Together, ed. Womack et al.,
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List 3: Anthologies
Across Cultures, Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures, ed. Paul DePasquale, Renate Eigenbrod and Emma LaRoque
All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction, ed. Thomas King
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English, ed. Daniel David Moses
An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English, Ed. Brown, Bennett and Cooke
Literature Amerindienne du Quebec, ed. Maurizio Gatti
Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, ed. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren Cariou
Native Poetry in Canada, ed. Jeanette Armstrong and Lally Grauer
Native Literature in Canada, ed. Penny Petrone
Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature, ed. Agnes Grant
Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island, ed. Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaetner, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Paper Stays Put: A Collection of Inuit Writing, Ed. Robin Gedalof
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, ed. Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Justice
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, ed. Grace Dillon
Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica, ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
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List 4: Personal Contributions
This list will eventually contain 20-25 books that are relevant to my Thesis Topic specifically.
Bouvier, Rita – papîyâhtak, nakamowin’ sa for the seasons (poetry)
