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Violence against indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance / Allison Hargreaves.
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- ISBN: 9781771122399 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xv, 281 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Subject:
- Canadian literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Storytelling > Social aspects > Canada.
Violence in literature.
Indigenous people in literature.
Indigenous women > Violence against > Canada > Case studies.
Indigenous women activists > Canada > Case studies.
Feminism > Canada > Case studies. - Topic Heading:
- First Nation
Aboriginal
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Carr University of Art + Design | PS8089.5 .I6 H39 2017 (Text) | 30240674 | Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
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The author examines the work of contemporary indigenous poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction writers for their resistance to violence against indigenous women in Canada, and the politics of literary, policy, and activist forms of resistance. She argues that violence is systemic and colonial, that representation matters to the material history of violence and its resistance by indigenous peoples and their allies, and that indigenous women writers contribute key insights into the analysis of gendered colonial violence while creating new, non-violent realities. She provides analysis of examples of missing and murdered women, such as the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, and literary responses to them, as well as anti-violence activism in juxtaposition with indigenous literature, such as the Amnesty International report Stolen Sisters: Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women, Christine Welshâs documentary Finding Dawn, Marilyn Dumontâs poem âHelen Betty Osborne,â Morningstar Mercreditâs memoir Morningstar: A Warriorâs Spirit, David Robertsonâs graphic novel The Life of Helen Betty Osborne, and Yvette Nolanâs play Annie Maeâs Movement. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Perseus Publishing
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nationâs colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed?
Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence. Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites of activism and policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action.
With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous womenâs literature is a critical site of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing intellectual history of Indigenous womenâs resistance. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis. This book explores how Indigenous women writers and storytellers are addressing the problem. Analyzing the work of poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers, Hargreaves examines how contemporary literature illuminates new pathways toward action. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nationâs colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence.
Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites of activism and policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action.
With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous womenâs literature is a critical site of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing intellectual history of Indigenous womenâs resistance.