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In this chapter, we explore questions of voice, veracity and subalternity in relation to Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s text Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman. In particular, we consider how adolescent readers take up these issues as they respond to their readings of the text in a high school classroom context.
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Johnston, I., Mangat, J. (2012). Truth or Lie. In: Johnston, I., Mangat, J. (eds) Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-705-9_2
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