When the other is me : Native resistance discourse, 1850-1990

Type

Book

Authors

Emma LaRocque ( LaRocque, Emma )

ISBN 10

0887557031

ISBN 13

9780887557033

Tags

Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Historiography, Canada -- Historiography, Indigenous peoples in literature, Racism in literature, Canadian literature -- History and criticism, Canadian literature, Decolonization

Abstract

"In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and literary writing, its effects on both popular culture and Canadian intellectual development, and Native and non-Native intellectual responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism, exaggeration of Native difference, and the continuing problem of internalization that challenges our understanding of the colonizer/colonized relationship."--Back cover.

Description

ix, 218 pages ; 23 cm.

Biblio Notes

Contents:
Representation and resistance --
Insider notes : reframing the narratives --
Dehumanization in text --
Currency and social effects of dehumanization --
Native writers resist : addressing invasion --
Native writers resist : addressing dehumanization --
An intersection : internalization, difference, criticism --
Native writers reconstruct : pushing paradigms --
Decolonizing postcolonials.

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