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The testimonial uncanny : Indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices  Cover Image Book Book

The testimonial uncanny : Indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices / Julia V. Emberley.

Summary:

Through the study of Indigenous literacy ad artistic practices from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, Julia V. Emberley examines the ways Indigenous storytelling discloses and repairs the traumatic impact of social violence in settler colonial nations. She focuses on Indigenous storytelling in a range of cultural practices, including novels, plays, performances, media reports, internet museum exhibits, and graphic novels. In response to historical trauma such as that experienced at Indian residential schools, as well as present-day violence against Indigenous bodies and land, Indigenous storytellers make use of Indigenous spirituality and the sacred to inform an ethics of hospitality. They provide uncanny configurations of political and social kinships between people, between the past and the present, and between the animate and inanimate. This book introduces readers to cultural practices and theoretical texts concerned with bringing Indigenous epistemologies to the discussion of trauma and colonial violence.

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  • ISBN: 9781438453613
  • Physical Description: xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"A Witnessing Love": Testimony in indigenous storytelling -- For a society against the racial invagination of power Ecologies of kinship: Or, lessons from the land.
Subject: 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.
Topic Heading: First Nation.
Aboriginal.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Emily Carr University of Art + Design PN491.4 .E43 2014 (Text) 30241245 Book Volume hold Available -
Emily Carr University of Art + Design PN491.4 .E43 2014 (Text) 30237919 Book Not holdable Lost 2018-03-06


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