Memoirs of a Really Good Brown Girl by: Marilyn Dumont Thesis living a dual life Implied; Speaker Marilyn Dumont "I live a dual life; I had white friends and I had Indian friends and the two never mixed and that was normal." First published in 1996, A Really Good Brown Girl is a fierce, honest and courageous account of what it takes to grow into one’s self and one’s Metis heritage in the face of myriad institutional and cultural obstacles. From A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books 2016, first published 1996) LETTER TO SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD . printing, Marilyn Dumont's A Really Good Brown Girl (Brick Books) is a defiant collection of poetry about what it means to be Métis in Canada. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. It is an indispensable contribution to Canadian literature. Keep up all October long as we read, share, and discover Indigenous authors and works. This edition of A REALLY GOOD BROWN GIRL features a new Introduction by Lee Maracle, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. I would like to recommend Marilyn Dumont’s A Really Good Brown Girl, published by Brick Books in 1996.Neither a book on history or public policy, a memoir or novel, this first collection of poetry by a poet who has gone to publish three additional, award-winning collections is, arguably, all of the above. Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy.She is the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for TeachHUB, Editorial … One of my choices is below – A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont (Brick Books, 1996). Dear John: I’m still here and halfbreed, First published in 1996, A REALLY GOOD BROWN GIRL is a fierce, honest and courageous account of what it takes to grow into one's self and one's Metis heritage in the face of myriad institutional and … Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award-winning classic. --Jennifer Andrews, Canadian Poetry--Jennifer Andrews, Canadian Poetry Dumont employs her own discursive strategies to ensure that the irony of the M tis population's survival is communicated ... [A Really Good Brown Girl] cultivates its own space of in-between-ness." In Memoirs of a Really Good Brown Girl, she talks about the dual life she lived, keeping her aboriginal and white worlds separate, and how she adapted herself to fit in and be accepted in white society until she proclaimed her heritage as an adult. Today's featured poem, "Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald", embodies Dumont's fierce, courageous voice and what Lee Maracle had to say in the foreword of the Classics edition: "No other … Dumont employs her own discursive strategies to ensure that the irony of the M tis population's survival is communicated ... [A Really Good Brown Girl] cultivates its own space of in-between-ness." A Really Good Brown Girl – Marilyn Dumont This book is a witty and clever book of poems divided into four sections – Squaw Poems, What More Than Dance, White Noise, and Made of Water. Winner of the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award and now in its 15th (!) so I … --Jennifer Andrews, Canadian Poetry--Jennifer Andrews, Canadian Poetry Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for A Really Good Brown Girl at Amazon.com. Get this from a library! A Really Good Brown Girl, by Marilyn Dumont. It has an inscription: I had never read Dumont’s work and can’t figure out how or why not. Tone Uses a first person pronoun "I" (i.e "Carefully A Really Good Brown Girl | Poetry. A really good brown girl. [Marilyn Dumont] -- "Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. I hadn’t budgeted for books at The Stop Farmers’ Market at Artscape Wychwood Barns a few weeks back, but it turned out that Pedlar Press and Brick Books were vendors (and I met Kate Cayley, whose How You Were Born I loved so much!) Native American Studies.