Research Catalog

Title

The theatre of regret : literature, art, and the politics of reconciliation in Canada / David Gaertner.

Author

Gaertner, David, 1979-

Publication

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

x, 310 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous-settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics, as developed in South America and South Africa, work counter to retributive justice. The Theatre of Regret asks whether - within the contexts of settler colonialism - this approach will ultimately favour the state over the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature, art, and other creative media throughout his analysis, David Gaertner questions the state-centred frameworks of reconciliation by exploring the critical roles that Indigenous and allied authors play in defining, challenging, and refusing settler regret. In 2007, Canada became the first liberal democracy to formally implement a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process, a prominent element of global intrastate politics in the 1990s. Through close examination of core concepts in reconciliation theory - acknowledgement, apology, redress, and forgiveness - Gaertner unpacks reconciliation within the contexts of Canadian settler colonialism and the international history of the TRC. In so doing, he exposes the deeply embedded colonial ideologies that often define reconciliation in settler colonial states. The Theatre of Regret redirects current debates about reconciliation and provides a roadmap for the deconstruction of state-centred discourses of regret."--

Subject

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Truth commissions > Canada
• Reconciliation > Political aspects > Canada
• Reconciliation in literature
• Indigenous art > Canada
• Indigenous art
• Race relations
• Reconciliation > Political aspects
• Truth commissions
• Canada > Race relations
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Call Number

JFE 21-2728

ISBN

• 9780774865357
• 0774865350

OCLC

1145076090

Author

Gaertner, David, 1979- author.

Title

The theatre of regret : literature, art, and the politics of reconciliation in Canada / David Gaertner.

Publisher

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Other Form:

Online version: Gaertner, David, 1979- Theatre of regret. Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2020 0774865377 9780774865371 (OCoLC)1182632346

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2728