Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal
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Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal

Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal

Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: Of Soft and Savage Bodies in the Colonial Domestic Archive
  5. 1. An Origin Story of No Origins: Biopolitics and Race in the Geographies of the Maternal Body
  6. 2. The Spatial Politics of Homosocial Colonial Desire in Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North
  7. 3. Originary Violence and the Spectre of the Primordial Father: A Biotextual Reassemblage
  8. 4. Post/Colonial Masculinities: The Primitive Duality of ‘ma, ma, man’ in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
  9. 5. The Family in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aboriginality in the Photographic Archive
  10. 6. Inuit Mother Disappeared: The Police in the Archive, 1940–1949
  11. 7. The Possibility of Justice in the Child’s Body: Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
  12. 8. Genealogies of Difference: Revamping the Empire? or, Queering Kinship in a Transnational Decolonial Frame
  13. Conclusion: De-signifying Kinship
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Illustration Credits
  17. Index