Violence against indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance

Hargreaves, Allison 1981- (Author).

Summary: "Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites of activism and policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781771122399 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xv, 281 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : violence against indigenous women and the representational politics of resistance -- The missing women commission of inquiry : story-based methods in public inquiry and commemorative film -- Narrative appeals : the stolen sisters report and storytelling in activist discourse and poetry -- Colonial violence, feminist anti-violence discourse, and memoir -- Recognition, remembrance, and redress : the politics of memorialization in the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash -- Conclusion : thinking beyond the national inquiry: a red girl's reasoning.