scholarly journals La « Troisième Solitude » du Canada vécue et transcrite par deux écrivaines autochtones : Jeannette Armstrong et Maria Campbell

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Isabelle Eloy-Carriat
Keyword(s):  
Maria Campbell ◽  
Jeannette Armstrong

Appropriation redux: Re-reading George Ryga through Jeannette Armstrong

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942097099
Author(s):  
Kit Dobson
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Jeannette Armstrong ◽  
George Ryga ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Indigenous Voices ◽  
Literary Circles

This article considers ways in which solidarity across social locations might play a role in fostering resistance to vulnerability. My case study consists of the interplay between writer George Ryga’s 1967 play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Okanagan Syilx writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong’s 1985 novel Slash. While these important and compelling texts have received considerable critical attention, the relationship between them is less known. I am interested in the ways in which these works both hail and offer critique to one another. In the contemporary moment, in which questions of appropriation of voice have gained renewed urgency within Indigenous literary circles in Canada and beyond, the relationship between these texts speaks to a historical instance of appropriation, but also of complicated processes of alliance-building. These texts demonstrate how agency resides across multiple locations. I read Ryga’s Ecstasy in the context of Jeannette Armstrong’s engagement with the play within her novel Slash in order to witness the ways in which Ryga’s text, in the first instance, appropriates Indigenous voices into an anti-capitalist critique. In the second instance, I read these works in order to witness how they might simultaneously provide a compelling analysis of the vulnerability of the people who are the subject of both works. I compare the interplay between Armstrong and Ryga’s texts to contemporary debates around appropriation in order to argue for the historical and ongoing importance of these two works as precursors to the crucial interventions made by contemporary Indigenous critics and writers.

A Creative Letter Inspired by Reading Maria Campbell’s Notable Memoir “Half-Breed” (1973)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 475-479
Author(s):  
Karli Woods
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Maria Campbell ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
The Family ◽  
Feminist Poetry ◽  
Artistic Medium ◽  
Reading Assignment ◽  
Literature Class ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
The Relationship

This creative letter (as set out below) was inspired due to reading Maria Campbell’s notable memoir “Half-Breed” which was published in 1973. I had the pleasure of taking a third-year Indigenous Feminist Literature class in September 2017 and our first reading assignment was to read “Half-Breed” and critically engage in the discourse in class discussions. I was assigned to read numerous Indigenous memoirs and to read a lot of Indigenous feminist poetry. With this explosion of literature, I was given the task to create a scrapbook presenting “Half-Breed” through creative writing, art work, poetry, and connecting it with a feminist and cultural lens. I thought it would be wonderful to create a response letter to Maria Campbell, explaining my thoughts and ideas surrounding her memoir. I wanted to create a letter that was open-minded, packed with critical thinking, and to challenge stereotypical notions of Indigenous literature – I wanted to break down those barriers and do my best to understand and appreciate this memoir because I fell in love with it after reading it. I kept returning back to vivid passages that had a lot of warmth, strength, and pride in families and communities. Youth is supposed to be an age of innocence, naivety, and adventure. Yet, for Maria Campbell, her time of youth and adolescence was very difficult and harsh – yet there were trinkets of wisdom and hope. Especially with the relationship and bond with her grandmother Cheechum – a powerful person and family anchor that held the family together in difficult times. Maria Campbell revolutionized the importance and preciousness of family in this memoir for me. Grandmothers are important teachers for children especially from an emotional stance for Maria Campbell. I believe building a strong emotional bond and community bond is what builds a person’s character, strength, and kindness. Maria Campbell illustrated these treasured qualities that cannot be taught in the academic classroom – but through her strong ties with her grandmother and community. Maria Campbell’s grandmother Cheechum bequeathed her strength and resilience to deter her struggles in a spiritual and emotional sense. This memoir was definitely awe-inspiring and the reason for why I wanted to create an artistic medium of writing a letter commentary to Maria Campbell.

scholarly journals Self-Empowerment as Revealed in the Two Canadian Women Characters Lou and Maria: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
S Udhayakumar
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Maria Campbell ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real Growth ◽  
Characteristic Features

Self-empowerment has been achieved by women at various levels and under various circumstances. These circumstances are not naturally made where as it is the construct of the male chauvinistic society. Despite the social pressure and circumstances, emerging out as independent women autonomously from the social bondages such as women suppression, physical abuse, etc. is the real growth of women who hail from all walks of life. These social pressures and bondages which have impacted greatly in the lives of Lou the protagonist from the novel Bear and Maria Campbell from the memoir Halfbreed have been widely studied and analyzed in this paper. Tracing out the similar and contrastive characteristic features of the two characters Lou and Maria, their different social backgrounds, their reaction to the social pressure are the major premises of the paper. Further, it deals with how feminism has worked in the two different contexts and their emergence is brought to the light.

14. An Okanagan Worldview of Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Jeannette Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Jeannette Armstrong ◽  
Taking Responsibility

This chapter introduces the worldview of the Okanogan people, an indigenous people inhabiting in the northwest of North America. Jeannette Armstrong describes her personal background and experience growing up as a member of the Okanogan community in the Okanogan Valley in British Columbia, Canada. She highlights the importance of intimacy with the land, taking responsibility for relationships, and building resilient communities in the face of cultural and environmental destruction.

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