Rupert's land : a novel / Meredith Quartermain.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781927063361 (trade pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 303 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Edmonton : NeWest Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in an electronic format. |
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Subject: | Girls > Alberta > Fiction. Depressions > 1929 > Canada > Fiction. Conformity > Fiction. Indians of North America > Fiction. Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Bildungsromans. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Kitimat Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Kitimat Public Library | Qua (Text) | 32665001877044 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-04-03 |
- Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2013 August #1
Constrained by social expectations, Cora Wagoner dreams of escape. While Cora entertains fantasies of escaping to a romanticized life amongst the âIndians,' Hunter George lives the reality of indigenous people in Canada during the Great Depression, oppressed by paternalistic Indian Agents bent on enforcing vindictively interventionist laws to force native assimilation into white society. Hunter himself is stolen from his family and sent to an Indian residential school. After a friend's death by neglect, he escapes in a desperate attempt to rejoin his people. A chance encounter sees Hunter joined by Cora, both desperately seeking freedom beyond society's borders. Quartermain, whose poetry collection Vancouver Walking won a B.C. Book Award, focuses on two groups traditionally oppressed by Canada's patriarchal society; her stylistic choices underline the protagonists' alienation. As limited as Cora's options are, she enjoys a glorious freedom compared to Hunter's lot; his experiences reflect the reality that some residential schools of the early 20th century killed roughly half of their unfortunate inmates. Those who survived were scarred by separation from their family, language and culture, many by the horrifying abuses they suffered. Canadians are â very belatedly â starting to come to grips with the reprehensible treatment of First Nations peoples in their history and its legacy of pain in the present; Quartermain's novel contributes to that process. (Sept.)
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Constrained by social expectations, Cora Wagoner dreams of escape. While Cora entertains fantasies of escaping to a romanticized life amongst the âIndians,' Hunter George lives the reality of indigenous people in Canada during the Great Depression, oppressed by paternalistic Indian Agents bent on enforcing vindictively interventionist laws to force native assimilation into white society. Hunter himself is stolen from his family and sent to an Indian residential school. After a friend's death by neglect, he escapes in a desperate attempt to rejoin his people. A chance encounter sees Hunter joined by Cora, both desperately seeking freedom beyond society's borders. Quartermain, whose poetry collection Vancouver Walking won a B.C. Book Award, focuses on two groups traditionally oppressed by Canada's patriarchal society; her stylistic choices underline the protagonists' alienation. As limited as Cora's options are, she enjoys a glorious freedom compared to Hunter's lot; his experiences reflect the reality that some residential schools of the early 20th century killed roughly half of their unfortunate inmates. Those who survived were scarred by separation from their family, language and culture, many by the horrifying abuses they suffered. Canadians are â very belatedly â starting to come to grips with the reprehensible treatment of First Nations peoples in their history and its legacy of pain in the present; Quartermain's novel contributes to that process. (Sept.)
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