Violence Against Indigenous Women
Subtitle: Literature, Activism, Resistance
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781771122399
Subjects: Canadian literature, indian authors; Canadian literature, women authors; Storytelling; Violence in literature; Indians in literature; Indian women, canada; Feminism
Description: "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."--