......................................................................................................................................... ii Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................... iii Yahguadangang (author’s respects)........................................................................................... iv Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................v Chief Dan George Epigraph ....................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER ONE: Building Bridges Between Academia and Indigenous Literatures
1.1 Outlining the Project’s Parameters .............................................................................................. 1 1.2 Finding the Appropriate Words ................................................................................................... 3 1.3 Appropriation and Abrogation..................................................................................................... 8 1.4 Make it New: Translation and Hybrid Texuality....................................................................... 11 CHAPTER TWO: Cross-Culturally Rendering Oral Myth in Robert Bringhurst’s A Story as Sharp as a Knife
2.1 Anthropology and Ethnopoetics ................................................................................................ 17 2.2 Learning to Hear the Voice in Text ........................................................................................... 21 2.3 The Sound of Myth.................................................................................................................... 27 2.4 Rendering the “Other” in the Self.............................................................................................. 32 CHAPTER THREE: Creating Dialogic Spaces in Harry Robinsons Write it on Your Heart
3.1 Storytelling as a Cultural Pedagogy .......................................................................................... 37 3.2 “Interfusional” Writing.............................................................................................................. 41 3.3 The Whirlwind of History ......................................................................................................... 45 3.4 Performing Audience................................................................................................................. 51 CHAPTER FOUR: Resistance as Cultural Translation in War Party’s The Reign
4.1 Hip Hop as a Multicultural Pedagogy ....................................................................................... 55 4.2 Contesting Space: Abrogation and Reinscription...................................................................... 60 4.3 Hybrid Orality and Hypertext Poetics ....................................................................................... 66 4.4 Antiphony: Calling Together, or Calling Away ........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER FIVE (Outro): Listening Scholars
5.1 First Nations Critical Practice in the 21st Century ..................................................................... 78 Endnotes .......................................................................................................................................82 Works Cited..................................................................................................................................85