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The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

George Ryga
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Pages
128
Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
Talonbooks

About

Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men's violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples. As perhaps the best-known contemporary Canadian play and a poetic drama of enormous theatrical power, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe had a major influence in awakening consciousness to the "Indian problem" both in whites and Natives themselves.

Related Subjects

  • Cultural Heritage
  • Adult Fiction
  • Native American Studies
  • Social Science
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Canadian
  • Drama
  • Death & Dying
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Indigenous

Reviews

"George Ryga has taken the human experience, which in this case is Canadian only by the accident of destiny, distilled it through his fine sense of compassion and given it to us; as an act of communion in which our own participation is inescapable."
CBC
"Scenes of shattering impact, genuine and true, and passages of a purity and intensity that catch you off guard and keep you there. As for author Ryga, his is obviously just the kind of disruptive influence we need."
The Washington Post
"I can only say that I sat there for two hours and was profoundly moved by something that tugged far more penetratingly at my heart strings, a far more urgently than any intellectual exercise I may have been willing to submit to."
Jacob Siskind, Montreal Gazette

Artists

George RygaAuthor