Jane Griffith

Words Have a Past

The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501617
• ISBN-10: 1487501617
• Artikelnr.: 54612181

Autorenporträt

By Jane Griffith

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bury the Lede: Introduction
2. Printer’s Devil: The Trade of Newspapers
3. Indigenous Languages Did Not Disappear: English Language Instruction
4. "Getting Indian Words": Representations of Indigenous Languages
5. Ahead by a Century: Time on Paper
6. Anachronism: Reading the Nineteenth Century Today
7. Layout: Space, Place, and Land
8. Concluding Thoughts