In The Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women's Poetry 2011 and Boyce Richardson

and Boyce Richardson

British Columbia

She teaches courses on the history of Indian policy and Indigenous-settler relations

Indigenous peoples and Canadian-hosted Olympic Games

Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple

In The Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women's Poetry 2011 and Boyce RichardsonIn the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women's Poetry by Jennifer Andrews, professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, offers critical analysis of the works of eight cotemporary women poets. Joy Harjo, Jeannette Armstrong, Kimberly Blaeser, Louise Halfe, Diane Glancy, Marilyn Dumont, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker use humour and irony within their poetry and the author sees their works as