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Selected Poetry of Louis Riel

Selected Poetry of Louis Riel
Author: Louis Riel
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2000-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550965346

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Luis Riel, the compelling leader of the Metis, hanged by Sir John A. MacDonald's government in 1885, sits at the core of the Canadian national imagination. Among partisans, he is either a poltroon or prophet, politically adept or an inept fool. He was a visionary, and a very interesting poet, full of rancor and tenderness, self-pity and dignity. This is the first selection of his poetry to be published in this country in both French and English.


The Incredible Adventures of Louis Riel

The Incredible Adventures of Louis Riel
Author: Cat Klerks
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781551539553

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Louis Riel, perhaps the most controversial figure in Canadian history, emerged as a leader of the Metis which led to his death by hanging in 1885.


Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont

Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont
Author: Joseph Boyden
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 014317875X

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Louis Riel is regarded by some as a hero and visionary, by others as a madman and misguided religious zealot. The Métis leader who fought for the rights of his people against an encroaching tide of white settlers helped establish the province of Manitoba before escaping to the United States. Gabriel Dumont was a successful hunter and Métis chief, a man tested by warfare, a pragmatist who differed from the devout Riel. Giller Prize—winning novelist Joseph Boyden argues that Dumont, part of a delegation that had sought out Riel in exile, may not have foreseen the impact on the Métis cause of bringing Riel home. While making rational demands of Sir John A. Macdonald's government, Riel seemed increasingly overtaken by a messianic mission. His execution in 1885 by the Canadian government still reverberates today. Boyden provides fresh, controversial insight into these two seminal Canadian figures and how they shaped the country.


The Riel Problem

The Riel Problem
Author: Albert Braz
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2024-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772127485

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Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged for high treason in 1885, the Métis politician, poet, and mystic has emerged as a quintessential Canadian champion. The Riel Problem maps this representational shift by examining a series of cultural and scholarly commemorations of Riel since 1967, from a large-scale opera about his life, through the publication of his extant writings, to statues erected in his honour. Braz also probes how aspects of Riel’s life and writing can be problematic for many contemporary Métis artists, scholars, and civic leaders. Analyzing representations of Riel in light of his own writings, the author exposes both the constructedness of the Canadian nation-state and the magnitude of the current historical revisionism when dealing with Riel.


The Audacity of His Enterprise

The Audacity of His Enterprise
Author: M. Max Hamon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0228000092

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Shining a spotlight on the life, vision, and cultivation of one of Canada's most influential historical figures.


Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Indigenous Poetics in Canada
Author: Neal McLeod
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1771120096

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Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place. Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous poetics. First, it explores the poetics of memory: collective memory, the persistence of Indigenous poetic consciousness, and the relationships that enable the Indigenous storytelling process. The book then explores the poetics of performance: Indigenous poetics exist both in written form and in relation to an audience. Third, in an examination of the poetics of place and space, the book considers contemporary Indigenous poetry and classical Indigenous narratives. Finally, in a section on the poetics of medicine, contributors articulate the healing and restorative power of Indigenous poetry and narratives.


On the Other Side(s) of 150

On the Other Side(s) of 150
Author: Linda M. Morra
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1771125152

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On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed. Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.


The False Traitor

The False Traitor
Author: Albert Raimundo Braz
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802083142

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The nineteenth-century Métis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been depicted variously as a traitor to Confederation; a French-Canadian and Catholic martyr; a bloodthirsty rebel; a pan-American liberator; a pawn of shadowy white forces; a Prairie political maverick; a First Nations hero; an alienated intellectual; a victim of Western industrial progress; and even a Father of Confederation. Albert Braz synthesizes the available material by and about Riel, including film, sculpture, and cartoons, as well as literature in French and English, and analyzes how an historical figure could be portrayed in such contradictory ways. In light of the fact that most aesthetic representations of Riel bear little resemblance not only to one another but also to their purported model, Braz suggests that they reveal less about Riel than they do about their authors and the society to which they belong. The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be a seminal work in the study of this popular Canadian figure.