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Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal : Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada / Julia V. Emberley.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emberley, Julia V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian women--Canada--Social conditions.
- Indian women.
- Indians of North America--Colonization--Canada.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Canada.
- Families--Canada--History--20th century.
- Families.
- Kinship--Canada--History--20th century.
- Kinship.
- Feminist theory--Canada.
- Feminist theory.
- Indigenous peoples in literature.
- Decolonization--Canada.
- Decolonization.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal, Julia V. Emberley examines the historical production of aboriginality in colonial cultural practices and its impact on the everyday lives of indigenous women, youth, and children.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Of Soft and Savage Bodies in the Colonial Domestic Archive""; ""1 An Origin Story of No Origins: Biopolitics and Race in the Geographies of the Maternal Body""; ""2 The Spatial Politics of Homosocial Colonial Desire in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North""; ""3 Originary Violence and the Spectre of the Primordial Father: A Biotextual Reassemblage""; ""Body, Interrupted""; ""Part One: Promiscuity in the Germ Cell of Civilization""; ""Part Two: Tarzan (and Jane); or, Savagery (and Civilization)""
- ""Part Three: Entering the Image/Text/Commodity Matrix""""4 Post/Colonial Masculinities: The Primitive Duality of 'ma, ma, man' in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy""; ""5 The Family in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aboriginality in the Photographic Archive""; ""6 Inuit Mother Disappeared: The Police in the Archive, 1940�1949""; ""7 The Possibility of Justice in the Child's Body: Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman""; ""8 Genealogies of Difference: Revamping the Empire? or, Queering Kinship in a Transnational Decolonial Frame""
- ""Conclusion: De-signifying Kinship""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9781442684270
- 1442684275
- OCLC:
- 647742617
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