Abstract
rec.] The Re-empowerment of Native Canadians through Literature: A Comparison between Lee Maracle’s Goodbye, Snauq and Tomson Highway’s Hearts and Flowers. [In:] Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past
Highlights
Native Canadian oral stories explore the environmental peculiarities of a specific homeland to provide the inhabitants of a given place with a wide knowledge of the space they belong to in order to forge a spiritual relation to the land, i.e. a sense of place
Of lands provokes a physical removal, the assimilation of oral traditions in mainstream literature and painting brings about a spiritual diaspora and an environmental injustice since, through stories, Aboriginal peoples honour the earth as sacred and manifest a deep sense of care for every creature
To re-appropriate their own patrimony and to recoup the world as a source of a creative power, Aboriginal peoples frame a body of literature that is not about them but written by them
Summary
Native Canadian oral stories explore the environmental peculiarities of a specific homeland to provide the inhabitants of a given place with a wide knowledge of the space they belong to in order to forge a spiritual relation to the land, i.e. a sense of place. Of lands provokes a physical removal, the assimilation of oral traditions in mainstream literature and painting brings about a spiritual diaspora and an environmental injustice since, through stories, Aboriginal peoples honour the earth as sacred and manifest a deep sense of care for every creature.
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