ISBN:
1527565416
,
9781527565418
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Amraoui, Yosra Poetics of the Native
DDC:
809.933529
Keywords:
Indigenous authors
;
Indigenous peoples
;
Indigenous peoples Social life and customs
;
Indigenous authors
;
Indigenous peoples
;
Indigenous peoples ; Social life and customs
Abstract:
Natives, Aborigines, Indigenous populations, and First Nations are all appellations that assert the legitimacy of various antecessors despite the subordinate position granted to them by colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial theories. In a perpetual quest for agency, the native has been framed within a set of representational practices that claim for a redress of grievances.Cultural, mediatized and historical representations of the native tend to fall within the boundaries of either a bottom-up or a top-down view that fits within a structuralist paradigm that rarely questions the individual
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