E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake : : Collected Poems and Selected Prose / / E. Pauline Johnson; Carole Gerson, Veronica Strong-Boag.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, E. Pauline,
• HerausgeberIn: Gerson, Carole,; Strong-Boag, Veronica,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a popular and versatile prose writer, and one of modern Canada's best-selling poets. Johnson longed to see the publication of a complete collection of her verse, but that wish remained unfulfilled during her life. Nine decades after her death, the first complete collection of all of Pauline Johnson's known poems, many painstakingly culled from newspapers, magazines, and archives, is now available. In response to the current recognition of Johnson's historical position as an immensely popular and influential figure of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume also presents a representative selection of her prose, including fiction about native-settler relations, journalism about women and recreation, and discussions of gender roles and racial stereotypes. Edited by Carole Gerson and Veronica Strong-Boag, authors of the enthusiastically received Paddling Her Own Canoe: Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), this collection exhibits the same impeccable scholarship and is essential to a full understanding of Johnson as a major Canadian writer and cultural figure.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 'The Firm Handiwork of Will9 -- I. The Early Years: Beginnings to 1888 -- II. The Prolific Years: 1889-1898 -- III. The Later Years: 1899-1913 -- IV. Anonymous and Pseudonymous Poems -- Outdoor Pastimes for Women -- A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction -- Forty-Five Miles on the Grand -- A Red Girl's Reasoning -- The Iroquois Women of Canada -- As It Was in the Beginning -- A Pagan in St Paul's Cathedral -- The Lodge of the Law-makers -- We-hro's Sacrifice -- Mothers of a Great Red Race -- Mother of the Motherless -- The Legend of the Two Sisters -- The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Protective Totem -- From the Child's Viewpoint -- The Siwash Rock -- The Potlatch -- Hoolool of the Totem Poles -- The Shagganappi -- The Stings of Civilization -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines