02-06-2018 02:31 via thestarphoenix.com

Publisher exploring new edition of 'Halfbreed' after excised rape passage discovered

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A publishing company is contemplating printing a new version of an iconic Canadian book after an excised passage was discovered that describes a rape of the author by an RCMP officer when the author was 14 years old.
More than four decades after Maria Campbell’s memoir, Halfbreed, was published in 1973, one-and-a-half pages from an early draft were made public this week by academic quarterly Canadian Literature. In the 513-word passage uncovered by Simon Fraser Uni
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