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« In [Shelley] Niro's narrative It Starts with a Whisper, we see how the city and its media bombardment of Indian stereotypes and bleak statistics isolate Shanna from her family and from her own freedom / responsibility to live her life as a young Tutelo woman. »
-- Carol Kalafatic

Source :
KALAFATIC, Carol. « Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh » , dans Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, sous la direction de Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow et Janine Marchessault, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999. [en anglais] (p. 111)