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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emberley, Julia, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous authors--20th century.

Indigenous authors.

Indigenous authors--21st century.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors.

Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

New Zealand literature--Maori authors--History and criticism.

New Zealand literature.

Australian literature--Aboriginal Australian authors--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Violence in literature.

Indigenous peoples--Folklore--Social aspects.

Indigenous peoples.

Australian literature--Aboriginal Australian authors.

New Zealand literature--Māori authors.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Social aspects.

Storytelling.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

xiv, 338 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]

Summary:

Through the study of Indigenous literary and 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : indigenous epistemologies and the testimonial uncanny

On 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438453613

1438453612

OCLC:

878222776