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The Emma Larocque Reader: On Being Human
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ISBN10: 1487551886
ISBN13: 9781487551889
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781487551889
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Emma LaRocque was born in 1949 in Lac La Biche into a Cree-speaking Métis family. She grew up in a one-room, kerosene-lit log cabin built by her father. At the age of nine, she fought her parents to attend school, where she encountered English and the colonizer's harmful stereotypes of Indigenous peoples. Confronting the contradictions of colonialism sparked her journey as a writer and scholar, as she sought to understand the dissonance between her identity and the world around her.
The Emma LaRocque Reader is a comprehensive collection of her most significant writings, poetry and prose, offering an intimate window into the mind of one of Canada's foremost Indigenous scholars. Through her work, LaRocque provides profound insights into the intersections of colonialism, sexism, and racism in Canada, while also critically celebrating the beauty of her community and culture. In the afterword, she reflects on fifty years of challenging the colonial enterprise. A vital contribution to postcolonial literature, The Emma LaRocque Reader intertwines the personal and the political to explore what it means to be human, offering a powerful testament to Indigenous resistance, resilience, and vision.
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