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Reflections of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Native Writing: Ruby Slipperjack’s Honour The Sun

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the world of oral traditions in a contemporary Native literary text, using Honour the Sun by Ruby Slipperjack as an example. As a result of the post-contact era, the novel encompasses both traditional elements of the author’s Anishinabe background and, obviously, features of a written work. Acting as a reminder of the past, of ones culture and identity, the novel is rich in references to oral traditions. We can trace both explicit and implicit references, and we can distinguish structural, thematic, and topological categories of oral traditions.

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Katarzyna Juchnowicz

Katarzyna Juchnowicz graduated from Nicholas Copernicus University in Torufi, Poland in the field of English Philology. In 2001 she was awarded second prize for the best MA thesis written in Canadian Studies in Poland by the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. At present she is a doctoral student with Professor Hartmut Lutz at the University of Greifswald, Germany. The working title of her dissertation is Presences of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Anishnabe Writing.