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- Title
Rereading Pauline Johnson.
- Authors
Gerson, Carole
- Abstract
This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson's creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J. Edward Chamberlin's ideas about narrative and about home brings fresh perspectives to her writing and reception in relation to her reversal of the White masculine gaze in her representations of Native peoples, Canadian history, wilderness, and gender. Her first Euro-Canadian audience used her work to assist with their own indigenization and help them feel at home in Canada. Because most current readers construct Johnson as figure of resistance, concentrating on a small selection of her poetry on Native topics, they continue to ignore her poems that invoke a female voice to possess the wilderness, along with her innovative erotic verse that reinhabits the female body by empowering the female gaze.
- Subjects
JOHNSON, E. Pauline, 1861-1913; CHAMBERLIN, Edward, 1899-1967; CRY From an Indian Wife, A (Poem); CORN Husker, The (Poem); WAVE-Won (Poem); GAZE in literature; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas in literature; NATURE in literature
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 2, p45
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Essay