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- Title
"There's a treatment centre where the residential school used to be": Alcoholism, Acculturation, and Barriers to Indigenous Health in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach.
- Authors
FABRE, CARA
- Abstract
The article presents literary criticism of the book "Monkey Beach" by Eden Robinson. Particular focus is given to the novel's depictions of addiction. According to the author, Robinson portrays alcoholism and other forms of addiction among Indigenous peoples as social suffering rather than a group pathology. Details on intimate violence and suicide as related to economic and neo-colonial oppression are also presented.
- Subjects
MONKEY Beach (Book); ROBINSON, Eden; SOCIOLOGY of addictions; ADDICTIONS in literature; INDIGENOUS peoples in literature; DOMESTIC violence; SUICIDE
- Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en Littérature Canadienne, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
0380-6995
- Publication type
Literary Criticism