Keynote - Challenging Narratives: The Gentle Art of Reclaiming Indigenous Story
Speaker
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Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The final book in the Trickster series, Return of the Trickster, was published 2021.
The current seismic shift in Indigenous Literature began with the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in June 2015 and with the blockbuster success of Cherie Dimaline’s 2017 The Marrow Thieves. While very few of the TRC’s Calls to Actions have been implemented, the way it shifted Canadian sentiment positively towards Indigenous stories has resulted in an explosion of Indigenous writers being published that only accelerated with the financial and critical success of Indigenous novels, poetry, and non-fiction. This talk will provide a quick overview of Canadian Indigenous literature and a list of resources for those interested in exploring Indigenous Story further.
Sessions
Room Bell Centre
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