Beatrice Mosionier & Beatrice Mosionier 
In Search of April Raintree [EPUB ebook] 

Introduction

In Search of April Raintree

Critical Essays

Deploying Identity in the Face of Racism

• Margery Fee

The Problem of “Searching” For April Raintree

• Janice Acoose

Abuse and Violence: April Raintree’s Human Rights (if she had any)

• Agnes Grant

The Special Time

• Beatrice Culleton Mosionier

“What Constitutes a Meaningful Life?”: Identity Quest(ion)s in In Search of April Raintree

• Michael Creal

In Search of Cheryl Raintree, and Her Mother

• Jeanne Perreault

“Nothing But the Truth”: Discursive Transparency in Beatrice Culleton

• Helen Hoy

The Effect of Readers’ Responses on the Development of Aboriginal Literature in Canada: A Study of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton’s In Search of April Raintree, and Richard Wagamese’s Keeper’n Me

• Jo-Ann Thom

“The Only Dirty Book”: The Rape of April Raintree

• Peter Cumming

The Limits of Sisterhood

• Heather Zwicker

Contributors

Heather Zwicker is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta. She locates her work at the crossroads of postcolonialism and cultural studies, with a particular focus on queer theory and feminisms. Her teaching interests include postcolonial theory and fiction, queer theory, feminist studies, and contemporary African, Canadian, and Northern Irish literature. Some of her recent publications include “Between Mater and Matter: Radical Novels by Republican Women” (Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. ed. Marilyn Cohen and Nancy Curtin, St. Martin’s Press, 1999), “Homosexuality in Zimbabwe” (Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures. ed. George Haggerty, Garland Publishing, forthcoming), and “Gendered Troubles: Refiguring ‘Woman’ in Northern Ireland” (Genders, 1994).