Margaret Laurence's 'The Loons'. A Literary Approach to Native Literature

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Essay from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), course: Ethnicity in Canada (Übung), language: English, abstract: This essay discusses "The Loons" by Margaret Laurence as a literary approach to native literature.In telling the story of the heroine Piquette Tonnerre, a young halfbreed girl of French and Indian origins, Maragret Laurence draws heavily on a well-known issue in native literature, namely on the confrontation of two different cultures as embodied in the girls search for her identity.

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