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Comparing A Cry From An Indian Wife And As Red Man Die By Pauline Johnson

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By addressing Pauline Johnson’s choice of clothing worn during her public poetry readings of “A Cry from an Indian Wife” and “As Red Man Die”, author Charlotte Grey highlights the underlining relationship between femininity and Indigenous assimilation through the magazine article “The Complicated Case of Pauline Johnson.” By analyzing Johnson’s elegant poetry performances and the perfection of the “Indian Princess costume”, Grey argues that Johnson’s “stage act inadvertently implied that an Indigenous woman could be effortlessly assimilated into the dominant society.”
Instead of pertaining to an analysis of the poem itself, this article develops a historiographical understanding of Johnson’s legacy and mark on Indigenous and Canadian history

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