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      Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Spray, Mitchell Leslie
      Type
      Project
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      This project paper discusses the Cree mythology present in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen. I contend that Highway’s conflation of the two mythological characters, Weesageechak and Weetigo, in the figure of the Fur Queen allows the dramatization of the interaction and confrontation between the aboriginal culture and colonizing culture. Through careful attention to imagistic references to the Cree Weetigo tradition, I contend that the Fur Queen is a complex metaphorical representation of the complicated reality faced by Highway’s characters. Through the Fur Queen, Weesageechak, the trickster, acts as a positive figure overseeing the success of her Aboriginal charges, while the cannibal Weetigo aspects of the Fur Queen represent the negative impacts and dangers faced by her charges within and from the colonizing Euro-Canadian culture.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Cooley, Ronald W.
      Committee
      Fagan, Kristina
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-08262008-121628
      Subject
      Canadian Aboriginal Literature
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