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Modern female Aboriginal subjectivity (in) the land: Mourning Dove's Cogewea.
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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March 1, 2008
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This essay argues that Mourning Dove's pivotal novel, Cogewea, The Half-Blood, reworks several important categories for literary and theoretical thought. Cogewea reworks conventional notions of the modern, contestable subject positions of Aboriginal people in modernity, and the idea of "wilderness." The essay reads Cogewea through modernist, ecological, and poststructuralist feminist lenses.
"Isn't it grand?" she questioned. "These are my prairies, my mountains,
my Eden. I could live here always! I shall hate to leave them when the
final summons comes. Wherever I go, I recall every outline of those
embattled ranges, nor can the vision close at the grave. When away, I
grow ...
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