A Native Heritage: Images of the Indian in English-Canadian Literature

by Leslie Monkman

Overview

This survey of English-Canadian literature is the first comprehensive examination of white writers turning to the Indian and his culture for standards and models by which they can measure their own values and goals; for patterns of cultural destruction, transformation, and survival; and for sources of native heroes and indigenous myths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487586836
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1981
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

LESLIE MONKMAN is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University.