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Hockey sur glace: stories
By Peter LaSalle. 1998
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Short stories, Sports fictionHockey
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Short stories and poems centering around the sport of ice hockey. In "Le Rocket Negre," a Quebec teenager is recruited…
from an orphanage based on his apparent racial identity. In "Wellesley College for Women, 1969," a former hockey player on scholarship to Harvard reminisces about two former girlfriendsNous voulons voir votre chef !
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2022
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Science fiction, Short storiesIndigenous peoples
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La diffusion d’un chant traditionnel haudenosaunee oublié attire sur Terre des visiteurs imprévus… Une intelligence artificielle développe des sentiments de…
tristesse et de révolte lorsqu’elle s’intéresse à l’histoire des Premières Nations… Trois hommes regardent jaillir d’un étrange objet descendu du ciel une créature aux allures de calmar géant… et savent immédiatement vers qui la diriger lorsqu’elle a exigé : Nous voulons voir votre chef ! Bref, voici neuf nouvelles issues de l’imaginaire débridé de Drew Hayden Taylor, et chacune d’elles est un argument indiscutable qui prouve hors de tout doute que, oui, la science-fiction autochtone existe… et qu’elle peut être drôlement bonne !American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
By Zitkala-Sa. 2003
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Short storiesAnthologies, Indigenous peoples
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Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation,…
she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today. .