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Fragments of truth : Indian residential schools and the challenge of reconciliation in Canada / Naomi Angel ; edited by Dylan Robinson and Jamie Berthe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angel, Naomi, 1977-2014, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
- Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--History--20th century--Sources.
- Off-reservation boarding schools.
- Indigenous children--Education--Canada--History--20th century--Sources.
- Indigenous children.
- Indigenous children--Crimes against--Canada--History--20th century--Sources.
- Documentary mass media--Canada.
- Documentary mass media.
- Psychic trauma and mass media--Canada.
- Psychic trauma and mass media.
- Collective memory in mass media.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Fragments of Truth is Naomi Angel's analysis of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established in 2008 to document the abuses of the Indian residential school system and to provide opportunities of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Focusing on visual media, this book examines how the Commission, itself a fraught project, served as a vehicle through which memory, trauma, and visuality were able to surface in often startling ways. Angel explores how archival images of the residential schools produced by the Canadian government have been reclaimed by Indigenous communities, thereby pointing to the unstable and shifting nature of what documentation of abuse signifies. The Commission thus offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of First Nations populations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reconciliation as a way of seeing : the history and context of the Indian residential school system
- Images of contact : archival photographs and the work of reconciliation in Canada
- Nations gather : public testimony and the politics of affect
- Reconciliation as a ghostly encounter : discourses of haunting and Indian residential schools.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Angel, Naomi, 1977-2014. Fragments of truth.
- ISBN:
- 9781478015932
- 1478015934
- 9781478018575
- 1478018577
- OCLC:
- 1295619885
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