« The dog was something good and small and the first thing in my life I could hold. I remember that I confided in him that I had been hurt. I think he was the only one I told. I thought the burden of knowing was too much, and that’s why he ran away. I’m still […]
Wenjack, Joseph Boyden.
« Poor boy is so thirsty he forgets his father’s lesson to never drink this way but to drink with cupped hands instead.« The short and compelling true story of Chanie Wenjack, a young Indian running away from the Ontario residential school he has been forced to join. Following his attempt to rejoin his family, the […]
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Lectures amérindiennes
Ma contribution au #defitarte • 8 Avez vous une thématique favorite ? Montrez nous votre lubie. Une petite sélection de mes bouquins anglophones d’auteurs amérindiens…j’en ai beaucoup d’autres sur mes étagères.Et je n’ai pas fini de découvrir cette littérature puissante issue d’une tradition orale vivace!
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Kuessipan, Naomi Fontaine.
« La neige recouvre le lac et le ciel obscur se laisse percer par d’innombrables tisons lactés. Tout résiste dans l’immédiateté. Tout s’oppose au sens commun. Tout repose, les âmes anciennes et les familles en vacances.« Un court roman-poème qui fait apparaître par une succession de tableaux la vie intime d’une réserve Innue au Québec. J’ai […]
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The Orenda, Joseph Boyden.
It’s time for #sundaysbest!The Orenda, Joseph Boyden. « We had the magic, the orenda, before the crows came. We’d never questioned this before their claws first grasped our branches and their beaks first pecked our earth. » Set in 1640, this brilliant polyphonic novel unveils the destiny of the so-called new world. Bird, great Huron warrior kidnapps Snow […]
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Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko.
My #sundaysbest for today is Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko. « She was almost there but felt something was about to overtake her. She had to know where Monte was, and what had happened to him. The old psychic lived somewhere in Tucson. Seese had to find the woman or she would be like all the […]
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