A mind spread out on the ground / Alicia Elliott.
"A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political—from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities. With a deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future." --Amazon
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385692380
- ISBN: 0385692382
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Prize for nonfiction, shortlist 2019. |
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Subject: | Indigenous peoples > Canada > Social conditions. Native peoples > Canada > Social conditions. Colonization > Social aspects > Canada. Racism > Canada. Canada > Race relations. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Vancouver Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Broadway Library | E 78 C2 E47 2019 (Text) | 33109010360071 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |