Defamiliarizing the aboriginal : cultural practices and decolonization in Canada

Emberley, Julia 1958- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781442610255 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: xviii, 319 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[285]-302) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Of Soft and Savage Bodies in the Colonial Domestic Archive -- 1. Origin Story of No Origins: Biopolitics and Race in the Geographies of the Maternal Body -- 2. 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 -- Pt. 1. Promiscuity in the Germ Cell of Civilization -- Pt. 2. Tarzan (and Jane); or, Savagery (and Civilization) -- Pt. 3. Entering the Image/Text/Commodity Matrix -- 4. Post/Colonial Masculinities: The Primitive Duality of 'ma, ma, man' in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy -- 5. Family in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aboriginality in the Photographic Archive -- 6. Inuit Mother Disappeared: The Police in the Archive, 1940-1949 -- 7. 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.