The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout
Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty,
alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple
many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of
Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides
groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and
Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical
studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway)
and Tomson Highway (Cree). Magic Weapons examines the ways in which
Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in
their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow
of attempted cultural genocide. By treating Indigenous
life-writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and
interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized
historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous
life-writings are culturally generative in ways that go beyond
disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and
write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential school Canada.
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