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.

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

Canadian literature.

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

New Zealand literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Testimonial Uncanny""; ""Beyond the Trauma of the Text, or Witnessing the Witness""; ""Assemblages: Where Epistemologies Meet""; ""Giving an Account beyond One�s Self: Testimony, Community, Decolonization""; ""Reparative Practices: Gerald Vizenor�s Survivance Stories""; ""The Indigenous Uncanny""; ""Spirits, Fetuses, Animals, Addicts, Aliens, and Other Uncanny Witnesses""; ""Part I: “A Witnessing Love�: Testimony in Indigenous Storytelling""

""1. On the Threshold between Silence and Storytelling""""Recognizing Postcolonial Violence""; ""Breaking the Silence of Residential Schooling: Shirley Sterling�s My Name Is Seepeetza""; ""Indigenous “Storywork�: Listening to Silence""; ""Reparative Textualities""; ""Unsettling Epistemic Frameworks""; ""The Indigenous Uncanny in the Search for Justice""; ""2. Assembling Humanities in the Text: On Weeping, Hospitality, and Homecoming""; ""Origin Stories and Other (in)Hospitable Acts of Writings""; ""The Laws of Hospitality and the Communistic Household""

""The Specter of Hospitality Is Haunting Derrida""""Cosmopolitanism Cannot Do Without Its Other(s)""; ""Songs of Homelessness, Signs of In/Hospitable Violence""; ""Repairing the Mother�s Body: Homecoming in Doris Pilkington�s Rabbit-Proof Fence""; ""3. The Accidental Witness: The Wilkomirski Affair and the Spiritual Uncanny in Eden Robinson�s Monkey Beach""; ""Surrogate Logic and the Wilkomirski Affair""; ""On the Absence of a Mother Tongue""; ""The Haisla Spirit Canoe Journey in Eden Robinson�s Monkey Beach""; ""PART II: For a Society against the Racial Invagination of Power""

""4. On Not Being an Object of Violence: The Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore�s Vigil""""It�s all about white men.""; ""The Trial: Testimonial Site Number 1""; ""The Trial: Testimonial Site Number 2""; ""The Trial: Testimonial Site Number 3""; ""Rebecca Belmore Breaks the Frame of Representational Violence""; ""5. Lessons in Love, Loss, and Recovery: The Life of Helen Betty Osborne: A Graphic Novel and Lee Maracle�s Ravensong""; ""The Racial Invagination of Imperial Power""; ""The Graphic Story of Helen Betty Osborne""; ""“Race� and the Remaking of Indigenous Class Politics""

""Indigenizing Desire in Ravensong: Or, Lessons in Love, Sexuality, Storytelling""""Something of an Epilogue""; ""6. Sacred Justice and an Ethics of Love in Marie Clements�s The Unnatural and Accidental Women""; ""The Politics of Need""; ""Performative Epistemologies; or, Six Women in Search of a Mother""; ""Shadow-Seeing and Dialogic Encounters: A Reading of the Unnatural and Accidental Women""; ""The Sacred: An Ethical Language""; ""PART III: Ecologies of Kinship: Or, Lessons from the Land""; ""7. The Storyteller, the Witness, and the Novel: Louise Erdrich�s Tracks""

""Ecologies of Kinship in Tracks""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453637

1438453639

OCLC:

892430160