Research Catalog

Title

Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance / Allison Hargreaves.

Author

Hargreaves, Allison

Publication

• Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

xv, 281 pages; 23 cm.

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."--
• "With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous women's literature is a critical site of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing intellectual history of Indigenous women's resistance."--

Series Statement

Indigenous studies series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Indigenous studies series

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Storytelling > Social aspects > Canada
• Violence in literature
• Indians in literature
• Indian women > Violence against > Canada > Case studies
• Indian women activists > Canada > Case studies
• Feminism > Canada > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : violence against indigenous women : representation and resistance -- Finding Dawn and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry : story-based methods in anti-violence research and remembrance -- Narrative appeals : the Stolen sisters report and storytelling in activist discourse and poetry -- Compelling disclosures : storytelling in feminist anti-violence discourse and indigeonous women's 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.

ISBN

• 9781771122399
• 1771122390

OCLC

• 959849067
• SCSB-12781143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library