What is it about?
This article considers what it means to be Métis in Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's novel In Search of April Raintree. Indeed, the novel modifies the terms of Métis identification in order to (1) mediate the effects of cultural indeterminacy and dispossession and (2) explore possibilities for individual self-invention and national self-determination.
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Why is it important?
This article shows how In Search of April Raintree negotiates various texts and contexts in order to recollect in the Métis a forgotten people and restore them to their rightful place in Canadian society.
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This page is a summary of: “What is the proper word for people like you?”: The Question of Métis Identity in In Search of April Raintree, ESC English Studies in Canada, January 2008, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/esc.0.0018.
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