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info_outlineIn which Kevin Hutchings (Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia) joins us to talk about the once-famous Ojibwe Methodist writer, George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh)! From Copway's relation to Romanticism to his resistance to European hegemony, this episode covers a lot! Kevin was great and allowed us to make one of our favourite episodes yet.
Check out his writings and more at: http://www.kevinhutchings.ca/writings
You can find some of Copway's works linked below and at https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/2021/05/14/selection-of-george-copway-kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh-poems/
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Sources & Further Reading:
- C. L. Howey, Meghan. “‘The Question Which Has Puzzled, and Still Puzzles’: How American Indian Authors Challenged Dominant Discourse about Native American Origins in the Nineteenth Century.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, 2010, pp. 435–474. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/amerindiquar.34.4.0435.
- Copway, George. “Once More I See My Father’s Land,” Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War, 2010, pp. 83.
- Copway, George. The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, Albany, Weed and Parsons, 1847. https://archive.org/details/lifehisttravels00copwrich?ref=ol&view=theater
- Hutchings, Kevin. Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature Land and British-Indigenous Relations, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
- “Orature and Literature,” CanLit Guides, 2016. http://canlitguides.ca/canlit-guides-editorial-team/orature-and-literature/
- Petrone, Penny. “Copway, George.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Rex, Cathy. “Survivance and Fluidity: George Copway's The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 18, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1–33.
- Smith, Donald. "The Life of George Copway or Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1818-1869) — and a review of his writings", Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 23, no. 3, Fall 1988, pp. 5-38.