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Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Name: Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Author: George Ryga
ISBN: 9780889220003

by George Ryga

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Synopsis

George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is perhaps the best known contemporary Canadian play - a lyric documentary about a young Indian girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violence and his paternalistic attitude toward Native Peoples.