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Author Emberley, Julia, 1958-

Title Defamiliarizing the aboriginal : cultural practices and decolonization in Canada / Julia V. Emberley
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 319 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Of Soft and Savage Bodies in the Colonial Domestic Archive""; ""1 An Origin Story of No Origins: Biopolitics and Race in the Geographies of the Maternal Body""; ""2 The Spatial Politics of Homosocial Colonial Desire in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North""; ""3 Originary Violence and the Spectre of the Primordial Father: A Biotextual Reassemblage""; ""Body, Interrupted""; ""Part One: Promiscuity in the Germ Cell of Civilization""; ""Part Two: Tarzan (and Jane); or, Savagery (and Civilization)""
""Part Three: Entering the Image/Text/Commodity Matrix""""4 Post/Colonial Masculinities: The Primitive Duality of 'ma, ma, man' in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy""; ""5 The Family in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aboriginality in the Photographic Archive""; ""6 Inuit Mother Disappeared: The Police in the Archive, 1940�1949""; ""7 The Possibility of Justice in the Child's Body: Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman""; ""8 Genealogies of Difference: Revamping the Empire? or, Queering Kinship in a Transnational Decolonial Frame""
""Conclusion: De-signifying Kinship""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Summary In Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal, Julia V. Emberley examines the historical production of aboriginality in colonial cultural practices and its impact on the everyday lives of indigenous women, youth, and children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index
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Subject Indian women -- Canada -- Social conditions
Indians of North America -- Colonization -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada
Families -- Canada -- 20th century
Kinship -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Feminist theory -- Canada
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Decolonization -- Canada
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Indigenous peoples -- Kinship -- Social aspects -- Canada
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations
Families -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
Indigenous peoples -- Government relations
Decolonization
Families
Feminist theory
Indian women -- Social conditions
Indians of North America -- Colonization
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation
Indigenous peoples in literature
Kinship
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442684270
1442684275