Working on Blood Relations and The Rez Sisters with an Axe and a Hammer
| dc.contributor.author | Lomibao, Adelvida Amor | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-12T00:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-12T00:09:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-11-28 | |
| dc.description | This essay won the Department of English's Elizabeth Sabiston Prize prize in 2024. Given in honour of Professor Elizabeth Sabiston, a longtime member of the English Department, this prize is awarded annually to a student who writes an outstanding essay in a 3rd or 4th year English course in the field of Women in Literature (British, American, or Canadian, 18th to 20th centuries). Subjects could include characterization of the female by female or male authors, women novelists or poets, comparative studies. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Sharon Pollock’s Blood Relations and Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters are seminal Canadian plays that follow the lives of women who feel trapped and examine how they react to their circumstances. The characters Lizzie Borden and Pelajia Patchnose are both women who desire to escape from the restrictive patriarchal home or the opportunityless reserve. These two women also famously wield weapons: Lizzie Borden took an axe and Pelajia has her hammer. This difference in weapons is reflective of these women's differing approaches to combatting the violence they experience. Axes break but hammers fix. While both women suffer under the patriarchy, Pelajia’s experience as an Indigenous, less financially fortunate woman adds different shades of oppression. Despite this, Pelajia has something Lizzie sorely lacks: love for her family. These differences manifest themselves in the women’s weapons of choice. Lizzie Borden uses the axe to violently remove her obstacles, whereas Pelajia uses her trusty hammer to slowly repair what is broken. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42578 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | Working on Blood Relations and The Rez Sisters with an Axe and a Hammer | |
| dc.type | Other |
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