Writing as witness : essay and talk

Brant, Beth 1941-2015 (author.).

Summary: "Beth Brant is a Bay of Quinte Mohawk from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reservation in Ontario, Canada. Her paternal grandparents moved from the reservation to Detroit, Michigan, where Brant was born in 1941. Her mother was white (Irish-Scots) and her father was Mohawk. Because her mother's family disapproved initially, at least, of her marriage to an Indian, the Brants went to live with the father's family in Detroit. The racism experienced from her mother's side of the family may have been one of Brant's first experiences with it. Addressing racism is one theme that appears often in Brant's writing. In the essay "From the Inside Looking at You," from Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk (1994), Brant asserts "when I use the enemy's language to hold onto my strength as a Mohawk lesbian writer, I use it as my own instrument of power in this long, long battle against racism. " ...

Record details

ISBN: 0889612005
ISBN: 9780889612006
Physical Description: print
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Toronto : Women's Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127).
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes and Amulets -- Keep the Drum Playing -- Recovery and Transformation -- From the Inside: Looking at You -- Physical Prayers -- Writing as Witness -- To Be or Not To Be Has Never Been the Question -- Grandmothers of a New World -- Writing Life -- A Beginning Bibliography.