Monkey Beach Boy Indigenous dramaturgy on Turtle Island

Indigenous dramaturgy on Turtle Island

religion and language as these endure despite overwhelming intrusions

Marie Battiste (editor) is a Mi'kmaw educator from Potlo'tek First Nations in Nova Scotia

The collection includes essays by Tomson Highway

Monkey Beach Boy Indigenous dramaturgy on Turtle IslandMonkey Beach combines both joy and tragedy in a harrowing yet restrained story of grief and survival, and of a family on the edge of heartbreak. In the first English language novel to be published by a Haisla writer, Eden Robinson offers a rich celebration of life in the settlement of Kitamaat, on the coast of British Columbia. The story grips the reader from the beginning. It is the morning after the narrator's brother has gone missing at sea; the