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Novels in English. Beginnings to 1900 Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.)
...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...
