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Bereav'd of Light.(Book review)

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Bereav'd of Light. Ian Ross. Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama, 2005. 46 pp. $12.95 sc.

In the one-act play, Bereav'd of Light, Metis/Ojibway playwright Ian Ross presents a parabolic revisionist history of racial oppression, correlating the stories of an Afro-American slave and a First Nations who...

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...warrior meet in the American wilderness sometime during the nineteen century, before abolition. The fleeing slave, Absalom, meets the Anishnabe warrior, Wagoosh, who is engaged in a vision quest, the meaning of which is enacted in his engagement with Absalom.

Ian Ross points out in a playbill note for the 2002 Stratford premiere that he "grew up, as most people do, hearing stories. Some of these stories were fictional, some real life, and some were of things that...

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