ISBN:
9781438453613
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 338 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
809/.933897
Keywords:
Indigenous authors 20th century
;
Indigenous authors 21st century
;
American literature Indian authors
;
History and criticism
;
Canadian literature Indian authors
;
History and criticism
;
New Zealand literature Maori authors
;
History and criticism
;
Australian literature Aboriginal Australian authors
;
History and criticism
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Violence in literature
;
Indigenous peoples Folklore
;
Social aspects
;
Storytelling
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Erzählen
;
Historisches Ereignis
;
Trauma
;
Heilung
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Autor
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Literatur
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : indigenous epistemologies and the testimonial uncannyOn the threshold between silence and storytelling -- Assembling humanities in the text : on weeping, hospitality and homecoming -- The accidental witness : the Wilkomirski affair and the spiritual uncanny in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach -- On not being an object of violence : the Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore's Vigil -- Lessons in love, loss and recovery : the life of Helen Betty Osborne : a graphic novel and Lee Maracle's Ravensong -- Sacred justice and an ethics of love in Marie Clements's The unnatural and accidental women -- The storyteller, the novel, and the witness : Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- (un)housing aboriginality in the virtual museum : civilization.ca and Reservation X -- Ecologies of attachment : tree wombs, sacred bones, and resistance to post-industrial dismemberment in Patricia Grace's Potiki and baby no-eyes -- Conclusion : the indigenous uncanny as reparative episteme.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
