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Colonialism

Can First World Literature Teach us Anything?

Can bourgeois, monolingual authors provide insight into the experience of marginalized others?

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What Was Lost: On Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda

How can Joseph Boyden’s epic novel help us imagine ethical forms of community and ecology for a post-colonial Canada?

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