Vera Manuel devoted her life to encouraging others to free ourselves through the use of our personal voices. Telling the truth is disarming, speaking your truth is a generous and healing gift.

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Prairie Fire & Drama Therapy Reviews


     
"With this edition, the editors of Honouring the Strength of Indian Women are ensuring that Vera Manuel’s voice will be heard in all its fullness, range, and power for generations to come and beyond. It’s evident that Vera Manuel was ahead of her time in reckoning with the history of injustice that Indigenous people have faced in this land since the arrival of the Europeans. She confronts this history fearlessly but with such compassion and wisdom arising from the richness of Indigenous knowledge and ways that we can find within her vision our own individual duty and responsibility to the past.
"Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetryby Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki), Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel.
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019, 391 pp., $24.95
ISBN 978-0-88755-836-8

"Dale Lakevold is a playwright from Minnedosa, Manitoba. He teaches English and creative writing at Brandon University."
     
     

From review in Drama Therapy ReviewVolume 6. Issue 1
 by
    Rachel K. M. Lee Soon,,MA, LCAT, LMHC, RDT, USA
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/dtr/2020/00000006/00000001/art00007