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Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history
Two Indigenous authors on the legacy of a shared, painful history
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19 minutes
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Today, two books from indigenous authors who make a similar, wry argument: it's a miracle there are any Indigenous people in the Americas alive at all. First, Stephen Graham Jones talks about his horror novel The Only Good Indians, a reworking of an old, hostile phrase attributed to Theodore Roosevelt; plus the literary reasons why he chose to make it a horror story. Then, author Lisa Bird-Wilson talks about how her personal experience influenced her new book, Probably Ruby, a novel that follows the legacy of forced Indigenous adoption and residential schools in Canada.
Released:
Jul 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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