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

LaRocque, Emma, 1949- (author.).

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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780887557033 (paperback)
Physical Description: ix, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.