Listening to Old Woman Speak: Natives and Alter Natives in Canadian Literature Book

	Introduction : writing "Indians" and the Manichean allegory	3
1	Representation and identification : gender and genre in the first Canadian novel(s)	28
2	"A curiosity ... natural and feminine" : race, class, and gender in the colonial writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie	49
3	"Poor creatures, once so benighted" : imagining race in early colonial narratives	61
4	Inhabiting a Manichean world view : colonialism, ideology, and discourse	71
5	Administering/ministering to the Indians : Duncan Campbell Scott and the politics of church and state	91
6	The temptations of Rudy Wiebe : history and postmodern Indians	105
7	"Contamination as literary strategy" : a postcolonial ideal	120
8	"Children of two people" : hybrid texts, hybrid people?	131
9	The healing aesthetic of Basil H. Johnston	144
	Conclusion : finding an appropriate(d) voice	152