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Travelling knowledges : positioning the im/migrant reader of Aboriginal literatures in Canada / by Renate Eigenbrod.
In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is not the answer but instead does a disservice to the literature that, like all literature, depends on being read, taught, and disseminated in various ways. In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod suggests decolonizing strategies when approaching Aboriginal texts as an outsider and challenges conventional notions of expertise. She concludes that literatures of colonized peoples have to be read ethically, not only without colonial impositions of labels but also with the responsibility to read beyond the text or, in Lee Maracle’s words, to become “the architect of great social transformation.”
Record details
- ISBN: 0887556817
- ISBN: 9780887556814
- Physical Description: xvi, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Winnipeg, MB : University of Manitoba Press, c2005.
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-274) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Coming to theory -- Bridging the gap or squaring the circle? A retrospective -- Routes or roots? : The rhetoric of mobility -- An ethics of reading : Positioning the immigrant critic ; The question of cultural literacy -- Reading for boundary de/constructions: Contextualizing the other ; The problem of essentializing -- Reading for movement and migration: Colonial boundaries, de-colonial movements ; Moving between cultures, languages, and literacies -- Travelling knowledges: The "trickster's" wanderlust and the continuum of reading ; The quest for identity ; The global search for truth and justice: Lee Maracle's "Sojourner's Truth". |
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| Subject: | Canadian literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism. Canadian literature (English) > Indigenous authors > History and criticism. Immigrants > Books and reading > Canada. |
| Topic Heading: | Indigenous. MTPK First Nations. MTK |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansdowne Library | PS 8089.5 I6 E55 2005 (Text) | 26040002917447 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
