In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in
the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a
development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance.
In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to
which this growing body of literature influenced non-Native
Canadian writers and has been fundamental in shaping our search for
a national mythology.
In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light
of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define
Canada and Canadian literature, McKenzie discusses the ways in
which our decidedly fractured sense of literary nationalism has set
indigenous culture apart from the mainstream. She examines anew the
aesthetics of Native Literature and, in a style that is creative as
much as it is scholarly, McKenzie incorporates the principles of
storytelling into the unfolding of her argument. This strategy not
only enlivens her narrative, but also underscores the need for new
theoretical strategies in the criticism of Aboriginal literatures.
Before the Country invites us to engage in one such endeavour.
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