Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance / Allison Hargreaves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hargreaves, Allison, 1981- author.

Series:

Indigenous studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Canadian literature.

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

Canadian literature--Women authors.

Canadian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Storytelling--Social aspects--Canada.

Storytelling.

Violence in literature.

Indians in literature.

Indian women--Violence against--Canada--Case studies.

Indian women.

Indian women activists--Canada--Case studies.

Indian women activists.

Feminism--Canada--Case studies.

Feminism.

Storytelling--Social aspects.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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."-- From publisher's website.

"With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous women's 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 women's resistance."-- From publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction : violence against indigenous women : representation and resistance

Finding Dawn and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry : story-based methods in anti-violence research and remembrance

Narrative appeals : the Stolen sisters report and storytelling in activist discourse and poetry

Compelling disclosures : storytelling in feminist anti-violence discourse and indigeonous women's memoir

Recognition, remembrance, and redress : the politics of memorialization in the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash

Conclusion : thinking beyond the national inquiry : A red girl's reasoning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hargreaves, Allison, 1981- Violence against indigenous women.

ISBN:

9781771122399

1771122390

OCLC:

959849067