The homing place : Indigenous and settler literary legacies of the Atlantic / Rachel Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryant, Rachel, 1983- author.

Series:

Indigenous studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

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

Pioneers in literature.

Colonization in literature.

Indians in literature.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century? What might nation-to-nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts - including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry - Rachel Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds. Her analyses call for a vital and unprecedented process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent for centuries. At the same time, she performs this process herself, creating a model for listening and for incorporating those stories throughout. This commitment to listening is analogous to homing - the sophisticated skill that turtles, insects, lobsters, birds, and countless other beings use to return to sites of familiarity. Bryant adopts the homing process as a reading strategy that continuously seeks to transcend the distortions and distractions that were intentionally built into Settler Canadian culture across centuries.

Contents:

Introduction : The homing place

Cultural iconoclasm : John Gyles's Atlantic Canadian captivity narrative

Canadian exceptionalism : finding Anna Brownell Jameson in an Anglo-Atlantic world

Imaginary lines : cultural storytelling in Peskotomuhkatik

Making words walk : Joséphine Bacon's poetic Tshissinuatshitakana

Rita Joe's Wigwam on a hill : reading and writing in the contact zone

Cartographic dissonance : between narrative geographies in Douglas Glover's Elle

Conclusion : reforming northeastern literary relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.

Other Format:

Bryant, Rachel, 1983-, author. Homing place.

ISBN:

1771122862

9781771122863

OCLC:

958481080