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The testimonial uncanny : indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices
- Title
- The testimonial uncanny : indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices / Julia V. Emberley.
- Author
- Emberley, Julia, 1958-
- Publication
- Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 338 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Introduces readers to cultural practices and theoretical texts concerned with bringing indigenous epistemologies to the discussion of trauma and colonial violence."--Back cover
- Alternative Title
- Indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices
- Subject
- Indigenous authors > 20th century
- Indigenous authors > 21st century
- American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism
- Canadian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism
- New Zealand literature > Māori authors > History and criticism
- Australian literature > Aboriginal Australian authors > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Violence in literature
- Indigenous peoples > Folklore > Social aspects
- Storytelling
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : indigenous epistemologies and the testimonial uncanny -- On the threshold between silence and storytelling -- Assembling humanities in the text : on weeping, hospitality and homecoming -- The accidental witness : the Wilkomirski affair and the spiritual uncanny in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach -- On not being an object of violence : the Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore's Vigil -- Lessons in love, loss and recovery : the life of Helen Betty Osborne : a graphic novel and Lee Maracle's Ravensong -- Sacred justice and an ethics of love in Marie Clements's The unnatural and accidental women -- The storyteller, the novel, and the witness : Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- (un)housing aboriginality in the virtual museum : civilization.ca and Reservation X -- Ecologies of attachment : tree wombs, sacred bones, and resistance to post-industrial dismemberment in Patricia Grace's Potiki and baby no-eyes -- Conclusion : the indigenous uncanny as reparative episteme.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-8291
- ISBN
- 9781438453613
- 1438453612
- LCCN
- 2013049819
- OCLC
- 878222776
- Author
- Emberley, Julia, 1958- author.
- Title
- The testimonial uncanny : indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices / Julia V. Emberley.
- Publisher
- Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Note
- Indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-8291