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Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

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Books by and about Joseph Boyden

Born with a Tooth by Joseph Boyden
Call Number: PS 8553 O964 B6 2008
Born With A Tooth, Boyden’s debut work of fiction, is a collection of thirteen beautifully written stories about aboriginal life in Ontario.
Dreaming in Indian by Lisa Charleyboy; Mary Beth Leatherdale
Call Number: E 78 C2 D74 2016
Charleyboy and Leatherdale assemble a wide-ranging and emotionally potent collection of poems, photography, interviews, and artwork featuring dozens of indigenous artists and writers from across North America.
From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans : a mixed blood highway by Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: E 78 C2 B69 2008
In 2007 Joseph Boyden, author of the bestselling novel Three Day Road, was invited by the Canadian Literature Centre to deliver the inaugural Henry Kreisel Lecture at the University of Alberta.
Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden
Call Number: FC 3217.1 A1 B69 2010
Louis Riel is regarded by some as a hero and visionary, by others as a madman and misguided religious zealot. The Metis leader who fought for the rights of his people against an encroaching tide of white settlers helped establish the province of Manitoba before escaping to the United States.
Masculindians : conversations about indigenous manhood by McKegney, Sam,
Call Number: E 98 P95 M37 2014
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood.
The orenda by Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: PS 8553 O964 O74 2013
Epic in scope, exquisite in execution, Boyden's spellbinding third novel tells the story of the French conquest of Canada from the point of view of both the conquerors and the conquered.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, 15 years : an anthology of prize-winning Canadian fiction Scotiabank ed. by Rabinovitch, Jack.
Call Number: PS 8329 S36 2008
Speaking in the Past Tense by Herb Wyile
Call Number: PS 8191 H5 W935 2007
"Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory."
Survivance by Gerald Vizenor (Editor)
Call Number: E 98 S67 S87 2008
The concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America.
Three-day road : a novel by Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: PS 8553 O964 T47 2005
Through black spruce by Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: PS 8553 O964 T49 2008
From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary aboriginal life, full of the dangers and harsh beauty of both forest and city.
Timing Canada : the shifting politics of time in Canadian literary culture by Huebener, Paul
Call Number: PR9185.5 .T5 H84 2015
Huebener transforms our understanding of temporal power and possibility by using examples from Canadian and Indigenous authors--including Jeannette Armstrong, Joseph Boyden, Dionne Brand, Timothy Findley, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Gabrielle Roy, and many others--who witness, question, dismantle, and reconstruct the functioning of time in their works.
Wenjack by Boyden, Joseph
Call Number: PS 8553 O964 W46 2016
An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School, not realizing just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from.

Joseph Boyden Biography

Joseph Boyden: Canadian Encyclopedia
Joseph Boyden's work focuses on the historical and contemporary experience of First Nations peoples of Northern Ontario.
Hamish Hamilton Publishers
JOSEPH BOYDEN's first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

Indigenous Identity

Author Joseph Boyden visited UFV in 2009. Since then Boyden’s experiences have forced him to examine issues of Indigenous identity, heritage and self. What emerges is Boyden’s truth…a truth, eloquent in its telling, that wrestles with a colonial past that is not the making of Indigenous peoples.