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    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe"
    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe"
    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe"
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    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe"

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    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535819473
    A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe"

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      A Study Guide for Carter Revard's "Birch Canoe" - Gale

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      Birch Canoe

      Carter Revard

      1992

      Introduction

      Carter Revard’s Birch Canoe, published in 1992, speaks in the persona of the canoe, carved out of white birch wood by American Indians. In doing so, it examines the relationship between the way of thought of white Americans and that of the people who lived in North America before the Europeans arrived. Revard is part Osage Indian, and he was raised on the Osage reservation in Oklahoma, but readers should not believe from this that he is more familiar with Native-American ways than traditional European culture: he was educated in the European tradition, including time spent studying at Oxford University in England and Yale University, and for almost forty years he has taught Medieval English literature. Although the author’s field of specialty is Western history, including the European and white American tradition, this poem indicates an appreciation gained from discovering the traditions that come from his Indian heritage. With recent expansions of information and communication products—global television systems, the internet, videos, etc.—and especially since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, the influence of the Western way of thinking has become dominant around the globe. Native Americans, who had their indigenous ways of life limited practically to the point of extinction by Western culture, could certainly find liberation in learning or relearning Indian traditions, as the poem indicates. When the poem speaks of my body’s whiteness and the way that it is transformed by Indians into something that travels freely, readers can sense an autobiographical element, although it is not necessary to know much about Carter Revard to appreciate "Birch

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