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Author:

Emberley, Julia, 1958- author.

Title:

The testimonial uncanny : indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices / Julia V. Emberley.

Publisher:

SUNY Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 338 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Indigenous authors--20th century.
Indigenous authors--21st century.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
New Zealand literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Australian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Violence in literature.
Indigenous peoples--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Storytelling.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1438453612
9781438453613

OCLC:

(OCoLC)878222776

LCCN:

2013049819

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)