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Govender, Arushani – Education as Change, 2020
This article uses feminist perspectives on decoloniality as a lens for analysing selected poems from Francine Simon's début collection, Thungachi (2017). Simon is a South African Indian woman poet from Durban, raised by Catholic parents of Tamil linguistic heritage. Her poetry collection, while feminist and experimental, deeply captures the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
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Al-Momani, Hassan Ali Abdullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The main goal of this paper is to depict the struggle for cultural existence in "Rabbit Proof Fence." It also reflects the cultural conflict represented in the three aboriginal girls' characters which is due to their rejection and resistance for the colonialists' culture. Besides, the paper presents the cognitive analysis of the cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Culture Conflict, Resistance (Psychology), Foreign Culture
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Reese, Debbie – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
In this article the author situates the analysis of two popular children's books in theoretical frameworks emerging from American Indian Studies. Using a new historicist lens, she discusses Anne Rockwell's (1999) "Thanksgiving Day" and Laura Ingalls Wilder's (1935/1971) "Little House on the Prairie" and suggests that these…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, American Indian Studies, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism
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Miranda, Deborah A. – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
The author found "This Bridge Called My Back" at the local public library when she was, at age thirty-three, finally beginning to write again, and write honestly. There were Indian voices in "Bridge"--a few poems or personal narratives that moved her, but which barely began to represent the range of the writers or the…
Descriptors: Females, Fantasy, American Indians, Disproportionate Representation