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A Residential School Memoir: Basil Johnston’s Indian School Days

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Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 58-70.

A Ride Like Miss Johnson’s “Wild Cat”^[1]

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Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 6-22.

Indigenous History Indigenous Literature Poetry

A Righteous War? L. M. Montgomery’s Depiction of the First World War in Rilla of Ingleside

by Amy Tector

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Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 72-86.

Children's Literature War World War I

A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion as a Settler Literary Land Claim

by David Kootnikoff

Abstract: In “A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion As A Settler Literary Land Claim,” I identify an aesthetic theme in Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, that parallels settler colonialism’s political response to Indigenous peoples and their lands. I argue that Ondaatje’s novel adheres to what Margery Fee identifies as a “literary land claim” (2015), one that legitimizes settlers as indigenes on “terra nullius” by denying Indigenous presence. I demonstrate this by extending GW Hegel’s aesthetic model of “romantic fiction” (592) to In the Skin of a Lion and suggest the latter embodies the attributes of a narrative that comforts settlers (Battell Lowman & Barker). By analyzing the inward quest of “electability,” which relies on a subject who retreats from the social world, I expose how a “violence of denialism” functions to invisibilize Indigenous presence.

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Canadian Literature 257 (2024): 138-159.