The testimonial uncanny
Subtitle: indigenous storytelling, knowledge, and reparative practices
By: Julia V. Emberley
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781438453613; 9781438453637
Subjects: Indigenous authors; American literature; Indian authors; History and criticism; Canadian literature; New Zealand literature; Maori authors; Australian literature; Aboriginal Australian authors; Postcolonialism in literature; Violence in literature; Indigenous peoples; Folklore; Social aspects; Storytelling
Description: "Introduces readers to cultural practices and theoretical texts concerned with bringing indigenous epistemologies to the discussion of trauma and colonial violence."--Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : indigenous epistemologies and the testimonial uncanny; title: On the threshold between silence and storytelling; title: Assembling humanities in the text : on weeping, hospitality and homecoming; title: The accidental witness : the Wilkomirski affair and the spiritual uncanny in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach; title: On not being an object of violence : the Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore's Vigil; title: Lessons in love, loss and recovery : the life of Helen Betty Osborne : a graphic novel and Lee Maracle's Ravensong; title: Sacred justice and an ethics of love in Marie Clements's The unnatural and accidental women; title: The storyteller, the novel, and the witness : Louise Erdrich's Tracks; title: (un)housing aboriginality in the virtual museum : civilization.ca and Reservation X; title: Ecologies of attachment : tree wombs, sacred bones, and resistance to post-industrial dismemberment in Patricia Grace's Potiki and baby no-eyes; title: Conclusion : the indigenous uncanny as reparative episteme.