{"id":32744,"date":"2013-08-06T05:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T05:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32744"},"modified":"2013-08-06T05:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T05:11:59","slug":"rereading-pauline-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32744","title":{"rendered":"Rereading Pauline Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/journal_of_canadian_studies\/v046\/46.2.gerson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rereading Pauline Johnson<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_canadian_studies\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue d&#8217;\u00e9tudes canadiennes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_canadian_studies\/toc\/jcs.46.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012<\/a><br \/>\npages 45-61<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jcs.2012.0018\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/jcs.2012.0018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rsc.sfu.ca\/people\/cgerson.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Carole Gerson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson\u2019s creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J. Edward Chamberlin\u2019s ideas about narrative and about home brings fresh perspectives to her writing and reception in relation to her reversal of the White masculine gaze in her representations of Native peoples, Canadian history, wilderness, and gender. Her first Euro-Canadian audience used her work to assist with their own indigenization and help them feel at home in Canada. Because most current readers construct Johnson as figure of resistance, concentrating on a small selection of her poetry on Native topics, they continue to ignore her poems that invoke a female voice to possess the wilderness, along with her innovative erotic verse that reinhabits the female body by empowering the female gaze.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having written extensively about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pauline_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Johnson<\/a> in the past\u2014most recently in relation to celebrity (Gerson 2012)\u2014I welcome the opportunity created by this collection of essays associated with the Grand River Forum to bring some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/2450-j-edward-chamberlin\" target=\"_blank\">J. Edward Chamberlin&#8217;s<\/a> observations about storytelling to bear on my current interest in returning approaches to Johnson. My goal is to bring fresh attention to the craft and range of her poetry and to the complexity of her reception. Chamberlin&#8217;s analysis of narrative as essential to human experience, however contradictory the stories on a given topic might seem, is amply borne out by the unusual life and career of Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913). The well-known part-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohawk_people\" target=\"_blank\">Mohawk<\/a> poet was closely associated with the Grand River region, where she honed her skills in canoeing and authorship, her talents converging in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rereading Pauline Johnson Journal of Canadian Studies\/Revue d&#8217;\u00e9tudes canadiennes Volume 46, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 45-61 DOI: 10.1353\/jcs.2012.0018 Carole Gerson, Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada This essay argues for a broader appreciation of Pauline Johnson\u2019s creative range and poetic accomplishment. Rereading her work in relation to some of J. 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