Billy-Ray Belcourt has populated his first short story collection with a pantheon of Cree characters, each presenting a different possibility for modern Indigenous life.
WATCH ABOVE: First Nations poet Billy-Ray Belcourt joins on The Morning Show to talk about his book ‘A History of My Brief Body,’ a memoir that focuses on his identity as an Indigenous, queer man and the truths of colonialism. – Sep 16, 2020has populated his first short story collection with a pantheon of Cree characters, each presenting a different possibility for modern Indigenous life.started with just one couple.
But as he was writing their story, which comes second in the collection of 10, more characters presented themselves to him and the book began to take shape — along with an expanded mission. “I have a real desire to be specific about queer Indigenous life and politics, partly because of course the literary landscape in Canada has mostly neglected that perspective until very recently, and also because I think about my own youthful experiences with art,” Belcourt said.
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