Blog 9 (Weeks 9 & 10) Discuss impact of author’s tribal history in the creative work: Kiss of the fur queen

The creative work of Kiss Of The Fur Queen is well written by the author Tomson Highway. Tomson Highway is a Canadian novelist, who was born in Manitoba, and Cree is his first language. According to his biography he was once abused by the priests at a residential school. Moreover, Tomson Highway was a social worker and he through the experience he obtained during the years he was a social worker, he transformed the experience into his novel works. Tomson Highway’s experience has a crucial correlation as well as impact on the novel that he has written. For instance, in the creative work of Kiss of the Fur Queen, Tomson Highway has applied his experience while he was at a residential school into this novel. In the Kiss of the Fur Queen, it encapsulates that there are two brothers who are from Cree culture attend the residential school together. In the novel, these two Cree bothers have experienced a similar abused issue at the residential school as well. Thus, Tomson Highway’s personal experience has a critical impact on his creative work. It is succinctly reflected in the Kiss of the Fur Queen, if Tomson Highway was not from Cree culture and did not experience an abuse at residential school, he might not have written a creative work such as Kiss of the Fur Queen. Furthermore, the main characters in the Kiss of the Fur Queen, they have to search for a solution to heal themselves from the abuse experience at residential school. This might also reflects that in reality, Tomson Highway has encountered obstacle in overcoming the impact from the abuse experience. Therefore, Tomson also writes this into the novel, in order to reflects from his own experience.

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  1. I really enjoyed this! It reminded me a lot of my own blog. Indeed, abuse can highly impact your life which is why it can cause such strong language. Have you read any other books from him?

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