Cree playwright Tomson Highway surveys the first wave of Indigenous writers published in Canada. From the Mi'qmaw of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island to the Loucheux of Old Crow, Yukon, From Oral to Written profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voices from their own perspective.
Tomson Highway was artistic director of Native Earth, Canada’s longest-running professional Indigenous theatre company, for much of the period under discussion and encouraged the production of some of the writers profiled here.
Pages
432
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Talonbooks
Release
August 25, 2017
ISBN
1772011886
ISBN 13
9781772011883
From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010
Cree playwright Tomson Highway surveys the first wave of Indigenous writers published in Canada. From the Mi'qmaw of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island to the Loucheux of Old Crow, Yukon, From Oral to Written profiles Aboriginal Canadians telling their own stories about their own people in their own voices from their own perspective.
Tomson Highway was artistic director of Native Earth, Canada’s longest-running professional Indigenous theatre company, for much of the period under discussion and encouraged the production of some of the writers profiled here.