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- Title
Pauline Johnson, Canada's "Indian Poetess": "The Most Unique Fixture in the Literary World of Today".
- Authors
Gerson, Carole
- Abstract
Johnson's canoeing poems, which feature a solo female paddler, are the work of a New Woman who transgressed gender restrictions of domestic confinement and limited physical activity. Regarded during her lifetime as "the most unique fixture in the literary world of today" ("Literary"), Emily Pauline Johnson continues to challenge categorization. Exemplary is Métis poet Joan Crate's invocation of Johnson's voice in her brilliant suite of poems titled [1]: Bill me as the Mohawk Princess Exhibit me buckskinned on a platform.... To have you hear my voice, I will turn any trick at all (41).
- Subjects
CANADA; WOMEN poets; INDIAN women (Asians); CANADIANS; INDIANS (Asians); WOMEN authors; FATHERS; CANADIAN poetry
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900619