An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English by Daniel David Moses

An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English Reviews

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  Lollita

  I had to buy this for a class it cost 110$ we read one poem one play and one short story... so I read most of it on my own gradually, I'm glad I did most of it was quite good.
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  Tibaiv

  this book was so amazing.
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  Andrew

  A great collection that is easily accessible. I wish they would have included original publication years for the works, and I find it odd they were left out.
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  Glen

  I read the first edition which is shorter than the one pictured here. There is a good opening essay by the editors explaining the need for the anthology and their principles of selection. The author biographies are also helpful. Of the selections themselves I thought the ones by Tomson Highway and Jordan Wheeler, Cree and Metis, respectively, were especially strong, but there is something for almost any taste here, including songs from Buffy Saint Marie. There is a lot of justified anger in these pages, but also humor, irony, delight in land and family, the gamut of human emotions one would expect to see in a survey of national literature, or should I say first nations' literature.
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  Carolyn

  While I didn't read this entire thing (it's massive), what I read was at least book length so I think it counts. There are tons of great pieces worth reading in this book. My favourite was probably Rita Jo's "I Lost my Talk" or Jeanette Armstrong's "History Lesson."
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  Eve

  Studied this book back in the 1990's during my university days. Excellent collection of short stories and poems from a variety of Indigenous authors.