AKA Inendagosekwe

Publisher's Description (Jacket 2): Annharte's collection of essays, AKA Inendagosekwe, is a mix of interviews, essays, artist statements, author biographies, theatre scripts, workshop notes and journal entries composed and published over the past two-plus decades, with a number of pieces in the collection appearing in print for the first time. Through three dozen pieces, Annharte explores the fluid nature of identity and identity politics, while challenging and questioning language, settler presumptions and aboriginal leaderships. Given the fact that a couple of pieces in the collection appear originally composed as author biographies, one could say that the entire collection explores identity. Annharte’s fluidity of form is striking, and the exploration of form is something her critical work shares with her poetry, as she pushes against racism, misunderstandings, stereotypes and just plain ignorance presented to and about natives and native culture, explored through humour, deft play and skill, and the occasional use of brute force.

Author's Biography (Jacket 2): Anishinable (Little Saskatchewan First Nation, Manitoba) poet, playwright, critic and storyteller Marie Annharte Baker, also known as Annharte, is the author of four poetry collections: indigena awry (New Star Books, 2012), Exercises In Lip Pointing (New Star Books, 2003), Coyote Columbus Café (Moonprint, 1994) and Being On the Moon (Polestar, 1990; Raincoast, 2000)

Resource type: Book (Non-fiction)

Age recommendation: Grades 10-12, Post Secondary

Keywords: Decolonization, decolonial, anti-colonial, independent states, literary criticism, psychology, resistance, radical thinking, boundaries, borders, identities, Indian Act, body politics, Ojibwe, Objibway, Ojibwa, Anishinabe, treaty, land rights, reservation, reserve, rez, off-rez, on-rez, politics, politicians, religion, expanded identity, freedom, adventure, sexual violence, sexual assault, rape, passing, stigma, shame, Red Power Movement, Little Sandy Bay, community, mental illness,

Year of publication: 2013

Publisher information: CUE Books