Tag: LitMod
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Indigenous TikTok
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Paula Stanco’s Medium. Jessie Loyer’s essay on the Canadian Arts website, “Indigenous TikTok is Transforming Cultural Knowledge,” brings up an…
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Terese Mailhot’s Heart Berries
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Paula Stanco’s Medium. Terese Mailhot cleverly writes about issues of the Indigenous condition, as well as the human…
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The Lived Indigenous Experience and Colonial Repercussions in Alicia Elliott’s A Mind Spread Out On The Ground
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Shubhneet Sandhu’s Medium. Alicia Elliott is a Haudenosaunee woman born in the United States but she moved to…
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Recovery and Healing in Helen Knott’s In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Shubhneet Sandhu’s Medium. Helen Knott writes a gut-wrenching memoir which bravely recounts her struggles with sexual violence and…
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‘Healthy Eating’ and the Indigenous Child
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Alanna Sabatino’s Medium. Author of the Globe and Mail Best Book of 2019 A Mind Spread Out On The Ground,…
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From Trauma to Healing; Overcoming Settler Abuse Against an Indigenous Woman
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Alanna Sabatino’s Medium. Author of In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience, Helena Knott, is an Indigenous poet,…
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“Indian Condition:” The Power of Pain, Loss, and Story in Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Stephanie Rico’s Medium. Within Terese Marie Mailhot’s (Seabird Island Band) Heart Berries: A Memoir there are two chapters with the…
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Narratives of Addiction and Indigenous Kinship in Helen Knott’s In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Stephanie Rico’s Medium. In her first book, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience, Knott (Dane Zaa Nehiyaw) gives…
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A Mind Spread Out On The Ground
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Laraib Khan’s Medium. “Is there a language of depression? Depression often seems to me like the exact opposite…
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Wear Yourself Proudly!
During the fall of 2020, graduate students in the Ryerson University English Department’s Literatures and Modernity program worked on digital criticism projects that reflected on Indigenous literature in Canada and feminist forms of testimony. This post originally appeared on graduate student Laraib Khan’s Medium. “I am trying to figure out how to be in this world without wanting it.”…
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