When the other is me : Native resistance discourse, 1850-1990 / Emma LaRocque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaRocque, Emma, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest literature, Canadian--History and criticism.

Protest literature, Canadian.

Racism in literature.

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Canada--Historiography.

Canada.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg [Man.] : University of Manitoba Press, c2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and literary writing, its effects on both popular culture and Canadian intellectual development, and Native and non-Native intellectual responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism, exaggeration of Native difference, and the continuing problem of internalization that challenges our understanding of the colonizer/colonized relationship.

Contents:

Representation and resistance

Insider notes : reframing the narratives

Dehumanization in text

Currency and social effects of dehumanization

Native writers resist : addressing invasion

Native writers resist : addressing dehumanization

An intersection : internalization, difference, criticism

Native writers reconstruct : pushing paradigms

Decolonizing postcolonials.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-213) and index.

ISBN:

9786613091383

9781283091381

1283091380

9780887553929

0887553923

OCLC:

836874581