Allison Hargreaves

Violence Against Indigenous Women

Literature, Activism, Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis. This book explores how Indigenous women writers and storytellers are addressing the problem. Analyzing the work of poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers, Hargreaves examines how contemporary literature illuminates new pathways toward action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781771122399
• ISBN-10: 1771122390
• Artikelnr.: 44643658

Autorenporträt

Allison Hargreaves is a settler-scholar of Indigenous literatures and an assistant professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, in unceded Syilx territory. Her research investigates literary interventions into gendered colonial violence in Canada, and has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Canadian Literature Quarterly, Canadian Woman Studies, and Canadian Theatre Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction :Violence Against Indigenous Women and the Representational
Politics of Resistance
1. The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Story-based Methods in Public
Inquiry and Commemorative Film
2. Narrative Appeals: The Stolen Sisters Report and Storytelling in
Activist Discourse and Poetry
3. Colonial Violence, Feminist Anti-Violence Discourse, and Memoir
4. Recognition, Remembrance, and Redress: The Politics of Memorialization
in the Cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash