The Emma LaRocque Reader: On Being Human

Author:   Elaine Coburn
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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Pages:   348
Publication Date:   15 July 2025
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The Emma LaRocque Reader: On Being Human


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Emma LaRocque was born in 1949 in Lac La Biche into a Cree-speaking Metis family. She grew up in a one-room, kerosene-lit log cabin built by her father. At the age of nine, she fought her parents to attend school, where she encountered English and the colonizer's harmful stereotypes of Indigenous peoples. Confronting the contradictions of colonialism sparked her journey as a writer and scholar, as she sought to understand the dissonance between her identity and the world around her. intertwines the personal and the political to explore what it means to be human, offering a powerful testament to Indigenous resistance, resilience, and vision.

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Author:   Elaine Coburn
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781487551889


ISBN 10:   1487551886
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   15 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Armand Ruffo Preface by Elaine Coburn Acknowledgments by Emma LaRocque Acknowledgments of Permissions to Reprint Introduction by Elaine Coburn 1975 A Personal Essay on Poverty (Excerpt from Defeathering the Indian) 1983 The Métis in English Canadian Literature 1988 On the Ethics of Publishing Historical Documents 1989 Racism Runs through Canadian Society 1990 Preface: Here Are Our Voices: Who Will Hear? 1990 Geese (poem) 1990 Nostalgia (poem) 1990 “Progress” (poem) 1990 The Red in Winter (poem) 1990 Incongruence (poem) 1990 Loneliness (poem) 1990 Beggar (poem) 1990 Tides, Towns, and Trains 1992 My Hometown, Northern Canada, South Africa (poem) 1993 Violence in Aboriginal Communities 1994 Long Way from Home (poem) 1996 The Colonization of a Native Woman Scholar 1996 When the Other Is Me: Native Writers Confronting Canadian Literature 2001 Native Identity and the Métis: Otehpayimsuak Peoples 2001 From the Land to the Classroom 2004 When the Wild West Is Me 2006 Sweeping (poem) 2006 Sources of Inspiration: The Birth of ""For the Love of Words"": Aboriginal Writers of Canada 2007 Métis and Feminist 2009 Reflections on Cultural Continuity through Aboriginal Women’s Writings 2010 Native Writers Reconstruct: Pushing Paradigms 2013 For the Love of Place – Not Just Any Place: Selected Métis Writings 2015 “Resist No Longer”: Reflections on Resistance Writing and Teaching 2016 Contemporary Métis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation 2016 Colonialism Lived 2017 Powerlines (poem) 2022 Wehsakehcha, Comics, Shakespeare, and the Dictionary 2023 Afterword Index

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Elaine Coburn is an associate professor of international studies at York University.

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