Acts of brief authority

Includes critical commentary of Newfoundland authors Anastacia English, Margaret Duley, Gordon Pinsent, Harold Horwood, Bill Rowe, M.T. Dohaney, Bill Gough, and Wayne Johnston. Incorporates Michel Foucault's perspective on power relations and suggests that Newfoundland writers perceive power stuctures imposed on Newfoundland societies both from within and outside those societies and suggest ways to restructure and overcome them.