Postcolonial Complexity in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ervin Beck
Keyword(s):  
Rudy Wiebe

The Scorched-Wood People by Rudy Wiebe

1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Delbert E. Wylder
Keyword(s):  
Rudy Wiebe

The Mad Trapper, by Rudy Wiebe

ARCTIC ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Rudy Wiebe

Fact and fancy in history and biography: the case of Greenstockings

Polar Record ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (200) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Rudy Wiebe ◽  
Physical Beauty ◽  
The Way

AbstractGreenstockings was the name that the members of Sir John Franklin's first Arctic Land Expedition gave to a young Dene woman during their winter residence at Fort Enterprise in 1820–21. All the officers' journals remark on her physical beauty, a reputed beauty that subsequently put her at the centre of numerous rumours and accounts. Historians know little about her other than her physical attractiveness and her age, although Greenstockings might have borne a child to one of Franklin's officers, and male jealousy over her might have put the expedition at serious risk. In spite of the paucity of factual information, Greenstockings has been cast as a central character in a poem by Franklin's first wife and in an award-winning book by Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe. These and other pieces of information show the way that different perspectives can allow for different representations of historical figures.

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