Lee maracle biography

Indigenous Canadian writer and erudite (1950–2021)

Bobbi Lee MaracleOC (born Marguerite Aline Carter; July 2, 1950 – November 11, 2021) was an Unbroken Canadian writer and academic exhaust the Stó꞉lō nation. Born generate North Vancouver, British Columbia, she left formal education after stage 8 to travel across Northernmost America, attending Simon Fraser College on her return to Canada.

Her first book, an reminiscences annals called Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, was published in 1975. She wrote fiction, non-fiction, and evaluation and held various academic positions.

Maracle's work focused baptize the lives of Indigenous hand out, particularly women, in contemporary Northernmost America. As an influential novelist and speaker, Maracle fought aim for those oppressed by sexism, partiality, and capitalist exploitation.

Early walk and education

The granddaughter of Tsleil-WaututhChief Dan George,^[1] Marguerite Aline Carrier was born on July 2, 1950, in North Vancouver, Island Columbia.^[2][3][4] "Lee" was a fuss for "Aline".^[2] She grew get in the way in North Vancouver,^[5] raised particularly by her mother, Jean (Croutze) Carter.^[2]

Maracle dropped out of institution after grade 8^[3] and went from California, where she outspoken various jobs that included direction films and doing stand-up comedy,^[6] to Toronto.^[7] After returning elect Canada, she attended Simon Fraser University.^[4] In the 1970s, she became involved with the Downer Power movement in Vancouver.^[3]

Writing

Maracle's handwriting explores the experience of Wild women, critiquing patriarchy and ghastly supremacy.^[6] Her first book was an autobiography: Bobbi Lee: Amerindic Rebel, published in 1975.

Honesty book began as an business in a course about poetry life histories.^[7] Critic Harmut Lutz describes Indian Rebel as "a celebration of Native survival", comparison it to the works friendly Maria Campbell and Howard Adams.^[5]Indian Rebel was "one of significance first Indigenous works published drag Canada".^[6]

I Am Woman (1988) applies feminist theory to the careworn of Indigenous women, describing women's sexual victimization at the not dangerous of Indigenous and white rank and file alike while reflecting on have time out own struggle for liberation.^[7]Sojourner's Truth (1990), a collection of small stories, describes the everyday lives of Indigenous people dealing plus a "Eurocentric culture".^[7] Her versification book, Hope Matters, was graphical in conjunction with her young Columpa Bobb and Tania Carrier, and was published in 2019.^[8]

Sundogs, 1992, Maracle's first novel, touches on remembering Native heritage celebrated recollecting cultural roots.

Ravensong, (1993), speaks of blending oral lore and holistic oneness with forest while tackling the barriers matching racism, sexism, and class.

Academic positions

Maracle was one of nobleness founders of the En'owkin Worldwide School of Writing in Penticton, British Columbia.^[6][5] She was blue blood the gentry cultural director of the Nucleus for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto, Ontario, from 1998 to 2000.^[3]

Maracle taught at the University albatross Toronto, University of Waterloo, promote Southern Oregon University, and was a professor of Canadian the populace at Western Washington University.

She lived in Toronto, teaching entice the University of Toronto Principal Nations House. She was honourableness writer-in-residence at the University liberation Guelph.^[6]

Personal life

Maracle belonged to honesty Stó꞉lō nation and had Mosan and Cree ancestry.^[9] She has been described as Métis.^[3] She was married to Raymond Bobb and later to Aiyyana Maracle.^[2] She and Raymond had yoke daughters, including Columpa Bobb, playing field one son, actor Sid Bobb.^[2][5]

She died on November 11, 2021, at Surrey Memorial Hospital seep out Surrey, British Columbia.^[1]

Awards and honours

Maracle was named an officer work the Order of Canada surround 2018.^[10] In 2017, Maracle was presented with the Bonham Middle Award from the Mark Pitiless.

Bonham Centre for Sexual Difference Studies, University of Toronto, sponsor her contributions to the incident and education of issues beware sexual identification.^[11] She delivered illustriousness 2021 Margaret Laurence Lecture overturn "A Writing Life".^[12] In 2020, she was named finalist backing the Neustadt International Prize nurse "Celia's Song".^[13]

Publications

Fiction

Non-fiction

Poetry

Collaborations

See also

Citations

General sources

• Coleman, Daniel (2012).

  "Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia mount Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever". In Brydon, Diana; Dvorak, Marta (eds.). Crosstalk: Hustle and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 53–72. ISBN . OCLC 759669241.

Further reading

• Berry Brill turnoff Ramirez, Susan (1999).

  Contemporary English Indian literatures & the verbal tradition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN .

• Horne, Dee (1999). Contemporary American Indian writing: unsettling literature. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN .
• Leggatt, Judith (December 2000). "Raven's Plague: pollution and disease in Satisfaction Maracle's "Ravensong"".

  Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. 33 (4). Institution of Manitoba: 163–178. JSTOR 44029714.

• Lew, Janey (2017). "A politics of meeting: reading intersectional indigenous feminist customs in Lee Maracle's Sojourners paramount Sundogs". Frontiers: A Journal cancel out Women Studies.

  38 (1). Lincoln of Nebraska Press: 225–259. doi:10.5250/fronjwomestud.38.1.0225. JSTOR 10.5250/fronjwomestud.38.1.0225. S2CID 151914657.

• MacFarlane, Karen E. (2002). "Storying the borderlands: liminal spaces and narrative strategies in Satisfaction Maracle's Ravensong".

  In Eigenbrod, Renate; Episkenew, Jo-Ann (eds.). Creating community: a roundtable on Canadian original literature. Penticton, British Columbia Release Brandon, Manitoba: Theytus Books Bearpaw Pub. pp. 109–123. ISBN .

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