The Actualities of Experience: Constance Lindsay Skinner's Indian Poems
Abstract
Canadian literary historians have identified the turn-of-the-century poetry of Constance Lindsay Skinner as historically significant translations of authentic North West Coast Indian verse. However, as close examination of the poetry in the light of two of Skinner's "feminist" essays reveals, Indian poetic convention operates as camouflage for her central preoccupations, which include her ambivalence about female power, her resentment of male sexual aggression and, most important, her desire to integrate her identity as a woman with her role as poet.Metrics
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