Title Travelling knowledges : positioning the im/migrant reader of aboriginal literatures in Canada / Renate Eigenbrod

Published Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) : illustrations Series desLibris. Books collection Contents Preface: coming to theory -- Introduction: bridging the gap or squaring the circle? a retrospective -- Routes or roots?: the rhetoric of mobility -- An ethics of reading: Positioning the immigrant critic; The question of cultural literacy -- Reading for boundary de/constructions: Contextualizing the other; The problem of essentializing -- Reading for movement and migration: Colonial boundaries, de-Colonial movements; Moving between cultures, languages, and literacies -- Travelling knowledges: The "trickster's" wanderlust and the continuum of reading; The quest for identity; The global search for truth and justice: Le Maracle's "Sojourner's truth." Summary In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is not the answer but instead does a disservice to the literature that, like all literature, depends on being read, taught, and disseminated in various ways. In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod suggests decolonizing strategies when approaching Aboriginal texts as an outsider and challenges conventional notions of expertise. She concludes that literatures of colonized peoples have to be read ethically, not only without colonial impositions of labels but also with the responsibility to read beyond the text or, in Lee Maracle's words, to become "the architect of great social transformation." Features the works of: Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Louise Halfe (Cree), Margo Kane (Saulteaux/Cree), Maurice Kenny (Mohawk), Thomas King (Cherokee, living in Canada), Emma LaRocque (Cree/Metis), Lee Maracle (Sto:lo/Metis), Ruby Slipperjack (Anishnaabe), Lorne Simon (Miíkmaq), Richard Wagamese (Anishnaabe), and Emma Lee Warrior (Peigan) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Immigrants -- Books and reading -- Canada Canadian literature -- Indian authors. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Canadian literature -- Indian authors Immigrants -- Books and reading Indigenes Volk Literatur Rezeption Letterkunde. Indianen. Canada Kanada Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0887556817 9780887556814 9780887553899 0887553893 1283091356 9781283091350 9786613091352 6613091359

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