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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Yvette Nolan

Yvette Nolan is a playwright and dramaturg. Medicine Shows, her book about Indigenous theatre in Canada was published by Playwrights Canada Press.

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Yvette Nolan

Creating New Ghosts

Settlers in a strange land need their own ephemera, it seems June 2014
Full disclosure. Not only am I not a scholar of the Gothic, but my understanding of the Gothic, until now, has been almost completely intuitive, born of an abiding taste for Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a youthful devotion to Stephen King and a curiosity about the Grant Wood painting American Gothic

What Does an Indian Look Like?

A massive study chronicles Native representations on Canadian television June 2008
Mary Jane Miller sets up a fascinating paradox in Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations People in Canadian Dramatic Television Series, her momentous exploration of the representation of First Nations people in Canadian television. The very first line of the very first chapter is “Start with this: white people should not tell First Nations stories.” Miller then proceeds to chronicle virtually all the First Nations stories told through the dramatic series on Canadian television since Radisson