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Title

Storied communities : narratives of contact and arrival in constituting political community / edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Lessard, Hester, 1948-
• Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-
• Webber, Jeremy H. A., 1958-

Description

xii, 370 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "It is neither easy nor commonplace in contemporary Canada to realize a coming together of storytellers and scholars immersed in Aboriginal identities on one hand and recent immigrant identities on the other. That is what this book promises and largely delivers."--Shauna Van Praagh, Faculty of Law, McGill University.
• "Delightfully original and daring ... Storied Communities presents the most original and challenging uses of narrative methodology as a tool for legal and political analysis."--Constance Macintosh, Faculty of Law. Dalhousie University.
• Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories -- narratives of contact and narratives of arrival -- helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities. --Book Jacket.

Subject

• State, The > Congresses
• Folklore and nationalism > Congresses
• Nationalism and collective memory > Congresses
• Storytelling > Congresses
• Political participation > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Congresses
• Immigrants > Congresses
• État
• Folklore et nationalisme
• Nationalisme et mémoire collective
• Art de conter
• Participation politique
• Autochtones
• Immigrants
• Einwanderer
• Erzähltheorie
• Indigenes Volk
• Kollektives Gedächtnis
• Nationalbewusstsein
• Politische Beteiligung
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Emigrants and Immigrants
• Victoria (British Columbia, 2006)

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "The chapters in this volume are drawn from papers presented at a Demcon workshop titled 'Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community,' held at the University of Victoria in December 2006"--P. [xi].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. 2. Narratives of contact and arrival in the Canadian political space. Canadian sovereignty and universal history / Michael Asch -- Historicizing narratives of arrival : the other Indian other / Audrey Macklin -- The conceit of sovereignty : toward post-colonial technique / Brenna Bhandar.
• Pt. 3. Narratives and narrative form. Show me yours / Richard Van Camp -- Horseflies, haireaters, and bulldogs : in conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht -- Counter-narratives of arrival and return : testing the interstices of resistance / Sneja Gunew -- Common ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin.
• Pt. 4. Contact and its narratives. Juxtaposing contact stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska -- Native women, the body, land, and narratives of contact and arrival / Kim Anderson -- The batman legend : remembering and forgetting the history of possession and dispossession / Bain Attwood -- Layered narratives in site-specific "wild" places / Jacinta Ruru.
• Pt. 5. Arrival and its narratives. Narratives of origins and the emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt -- "Robbed of a different life" : alternative histories, interrupted futures / Susan Bibler Coutin.
• Pt. 6. Institutional implications : how would we do things differently if we took narrative seriously? Toward a shared narrative of reconciliation : developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson -- Hoquotist : reorienting through storied practice / Johnny Mack -- Proof and narrative : "reproducing the facts" in refugee claims / Donald Galloway.

ISBN

• 9780774818797
• 0774818794
• 0774818808
• 9780774818803

LCCN

^^2011389655

OCLC

• 667805489
• SCSB-12774104

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library