Law and Literature

"In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading 'the carceral'—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature.

"Aboriginal Canada Revisited examines the current political and cultural position of Canada's Aboriginal peoples in a series of interdisciplinary essays. The contributors to this volume explore Aboriginal politics and representation, health, education and other social issues, and look at how contemporary Aboriginals find voice in literature, art, print media, and film.

"The thirteen stories in Born With A Tooth are diverse in subject matter, ranging from a butterfly-costumed boy fascinated by the world of professional wrestling, to a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, to the lead singer of an all-girl Native punk band. What they have in common is Boyden's writing, a style infused with grace and power.

"This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or "othering" exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Dion take up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy.