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Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance  Cover Image Book Book

Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance

Summary: "Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation's colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence. 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."--Publisher's description.

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  • ISBN: 9781771122399
  • ISBN: 1771122390
  • ISBN: 9781771122498
  • ISBN: 1771122498
  • ISBN: 9781771122504
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 indigenous 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.
Subject: Canadian literature Indian authors History and criticism
Canadian literature Women authors 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
Canadian literature (English) 21st century History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM Canadian
SOCIAL SCIENCE Women's Studies
Canadian literature
Canadian literature Indian authors
Canadian literature Women authors
Feminism
Indian women activists
Indians in literature
Storytelling Social aspects
Violence in literature
Canada
First Nations Authors Women History and criticism
Genre: Case studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Case studies.

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Lummi Library PS 8089.5 .I6 H37 2017 290076 Stacks Checked out 01/14/2020

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