Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada

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Synopsis
In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is not the answer but instead does a disservice to the literature that, like all literature, depends on being read, taught, and disseminated in various ways. In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod suggests decolonizing strategies when approaching Aboriginal texts as an outsider and challenges conventional notions of expertise. She concludes that literatures of colonized peoples have to be read ethically, not only without colonial impositions of labels but also with the responsibility to read beyond the text or, in Lee Maracle's words, to become "the architect of great social transformation." Features the works of: Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Louise Halfe (Cree), Margo Kane (Saulteaux/Cree), Maurice Kenny (Mohawk), Thomas King (Cherokee, living in Canada), Emma LaRocque (Cree/Metis), Lee Maracle (Sto:lo/Metis), Ruby Slipperjack (Anishnaabe), Lorne Simon (Miíkmaq), Richard Wagamese (Anishnaabe), and Emma Lee Warrior (Peigan).
Copyright:
2005

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
274 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780887559822
Related ISBNs:
9780887553899, 9780887556814
Publisher:
University of Manitoba Press
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Copyrighted By:
Renate Eigenbrod
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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