Stó:lō storyteller Lee Maracle on the Writing Life (Margaret Laurence Lecture 2020)

Writers' Trust of Canada

English - June 30, 2021 18:54 - 38 minutes - 88.8 MB
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Acclaimed Indigenous author Lee Maracle on decolonizing literature and the issues with books schools choose to iconize. Maracle looks retrospectively at her own writing life, contemporaries, and community, and asks why Indigenous women continuously come last in Canada.