A Quality of Light 2002 The book challenges contemporary assumptions

The book challenges contemporary assumptions that Aboriginal identity is framed in terms of cultural and national traits

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Fort Battleford

This information is presented as fact rather than a theory presented by anthropologists

The Discovery of Fire

A Quality of Light 2002 The book challenges contemporary assumptionsA Quality of Light is Richard Wagamese's second novel published in 1997. It deals with identity issues and features an Aboriginal boy (Joshua Kane) raised by adoptive white farming parents and a white boy (Johnny Gebhart) who lives in a small town and whose father is an alcoholic. While Joshua is protected by his loving parents whose Christian faith becomes his belief, Johnny finds life a miserable existence with his only refuge in books whose heroes