Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance

by Michael D. Wilson

In Writing Home, Michael Wilson demonstrates that the use of acceptable Western literary forms by indigenous peoples, while sometimes effective, has frequently distorted essential truths about their cultures. Sermons, for instance, have provided some indigenous authors with a means to criticize colonialism; but ultimately this institutional form, by its very nature, expresses a hierarchical relationship between Christian religions and indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870138189
• ISBN13: 9780870138188
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"