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Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry

by Vera Manuel
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780887558368
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: USD 27.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 545 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Canadian and Native American

This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts.

A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, Strength of Indian Women--first performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools--along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools.

Arnott, Joanne: - Joanne Arnott (Métis) A Métis/mixed-blood writer, originally from Manitoba.

Coupal, Michelle: - Michelle Coupal (Bonnechere Algonquin First Nation) is Canada Research Chair in Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Literatures, and Associate Professor at the University of Regina.

Manuel, Emalene: - Emalene Manuel (Ktunaxa-Secwepemc). Vera Manuel's sister, Emalene Manuel recently completed her Master of Education in Educational Administration and Leadership at the University of British Columbia.

Manuel, Vera: - Vera Manuel (1948-2010) was an Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer at the forefront of Residential School writing who did tremendous work as a dramatherapist and healer.

Reder, Deanna: - Deanna Reder (Métis) is Chair of the Department of First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University and member of the Department of English.

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