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Drawing upon recent anthropological scholarship for a general theory of production, exchange, and valuation, this essay seeks to understand cultural appropriation, in a consequential but not exclusive way, as an ambivalent process whereby the norms and practices of imperialist society may be challenged by modern writers whether of Native or non-Native heritage. The examples of Emily Cart, Marius Barbeau, and Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) here illuminate a basic set of relationships between modernism, imperialism, and nationalism.

Deals with the focus given to family in postmodern Canadian tragedy. Ideas about the concept of the individual; Depiction of family in Thomas King's "All My Relations"; Views on the characters in "Traplines."

Talks about the bad multiplicity in Canadian literature. Assumption in critical practice regarding Canadian literature; Definition of bad multiplicity; Analysis of the history of Canadian sociability.