EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Rez Sisters, Canadian Literature, Kapuskasing
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Highway(cid:495)s bio: (ighway was born on his father(cid:495)s trapline on a remote island in maria lake in. Saskatuwan: he is the 11th of 12 children, and his older brothers and sisters do not speak english, but. Cree and chipewayan: he learned to speak in residential schools, for high school, highway went to winnipeg where he lived in a variety of white foster homes. Rez sisters, a play also puts centre stage a community that had not been represented on stage before. It is also a community of women, and they sometimes speak in cree and: michael tremblay(cid:495)s play les belles soeurs (cid:523)(cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:887)(cid:524) has inspired highway to write the. Ojubway also languages that hadn(cid:495)t been performed onstage before stage voices that hadn(cid:495)t been heard before in theatre. Use of humor to refute the (cid:494)victim(cid:495) label: the women in this play experience many difficulties, but highway emphasizes the.
