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James Knox Polk

Subject: Social sciences, Warfare and Defence

(1795–1849) US Democratic statesman, 11th President of the USA (1845–49). His term of office resulted in major territorial additions to the USA: Texas was admitted to the Union ...

Novels in English. Beginnings to 1900

Novels in English. Beginnings to 1900   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2006
Subject:
Literature
Length:
31,866 words

...in Montana in the 1880s and 1890s. Barclay's poetic gifts enabled her to create for the generically named Old Woman a voice at once believable and inimitable to carry the monumental mythic stature of the protagonist—as Wiebe did for Big Bear. A further development is evident in James Polk's novel The passion of Loreen Bright Weasel ( 1981 ) which, despite its echoing title, eschews the mythic and explores the predicament of the contemporary Native in a tone of irony; the humour is often at the expense of whites, Natives, religion, local government, and...

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