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Wîhtikow feast : digesting layers of memory and myth in Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen and McLeod's Sons of a Lost River

dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Wendyen_US
dc.creatorAdair, Robin Shawnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-17T12:14:00Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T04:59:04Z
dc.date.available2011-10-05T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T04:59:04Z
dc.date.created2010-09en_US
dc.date.issued2010-09en_US
dc.date.submittedSeptember 2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores and compares the ways in which novelist and playwright Tomson Highway and visual artist and poet Neal McLeod use traditional and contemporary Cree narratives to represent personal and collective cultural experiences, both past and present. In Highway’s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, and in McLeod’s exhibition of paintings Sons of a Lost River, the mythic figure of the wîhtikow, a cannibalistic entity that symbolizes the destructive forces of colonialism and urbanization, as well as the self-abusive patterns found within the individual psyche, is used in counterpoint with the Cree trickster wîsahkecâhk, elemental spirits like the Thunderbird, and heroes such as ayash and pîkahin okosisa to express a multi-stylistic array of cultural meanings that avoid absolute interpretations. Highway and McLeod create myths that explore the oppressive as well as the redemptive processes of their cultural heritage over centuries of engagement with colonial powers and institutions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-09172010-121400en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nations Mythologyen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nations visual arten_US
dc.subjectEnglish literatureen_US
dc.titleWîhtikow feast : digesting layers of memory and myth in Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen and McLeod's Sons of a Lost Riveren_US
dc.type.genreProjecten_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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