Description
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
Trade ReviewThe book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states. -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *
Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction
1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber
Part 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space
2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch
3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin
4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda
Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form
5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp
6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht
7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew
8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin
Part 4: Contact and Its Narratives
9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska
10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson
11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood
12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places / Jacinta Ruru
Part 5: Arrival and Its Narratives
13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt
14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler Coutin
Part 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?
15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson
16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack
17 Proof and Narrative: “Reproducing the Facts” in Refugee Claims / Donald Galloway
Part 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here?
18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha Nandorfy
Contributors; Index
