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How can I read Aboriginal literature?: the intersections of Canadian Aboriginal and Japanese Canadian literature

This study aims to examine critiques of social injustices expressed through the medium of literature by Native peoples of Canada and Japanese Canadians. My objectives are to explore literary representations of their struggles and examine how these representations and the struggles intersect. My study uses the following: “Coyote and the Enemy Aliens” by Thomas King, My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling, Obasan by Joy Kogawa, The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto, Burning Vision by Marie Clements, and “The Uranium Leaking from Port Radium and Rayrock Mines is Killing Us” by Richard Van Camp. The findings reveal Canada’s nation state still rooted in a White settler constructed society, and a legacy of imperialism in the form of globalization that destroys Native peoples’ lands. My thesis concludes with the im/possibilities of reconciliation, also considering my own role as a person of colour, a temporary settler from Japan.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/4755
Date10 August 2011
CreatorsKusamoto, Keiko
ContributorsEigenbrod, Renate (Native Studies), LaRocque, Emma (Native Studies) Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity (English, Film, and Theatre)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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