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An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. 2d ed. Daniel David Moses, Terry Goldie, eds. New York. Oxford University Press. 1998. xxix + 529 pages. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-541282-6.
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English is the most recent of several outstanding anthologies of Canadian Native (or First Nations) writing. First published in 1992, the present collection is a second edition and includes fourteen new writers and new work by some ten writers from the first edition. The editors make the point in the preface to the first edition that they are not so much attempting to establish a canon of the best writing as endeavoring to "get the material out, get people to read it," and "to provide a space in which Native writers can present to outsiders their view of this time." The preface...