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.
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.
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
1. Introduction: Violence Against Indigenous Women: Representation and Resistance 2. 1. Finding Dawn and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Story-Based Methods in Anti-Violence Research and Remembrance 3. 2. Narrative Appeals: The Stolen Sisters Report and Storytelling in Activist Discourse and Poetry 4. 3. Compelling Disclosures: Storytelling in Feminist Anti-Violence Discourse and Indigenous Women's Memoir 5. 4. Recognition, Remembrance, and Redress: The Politics of Memorialization in the Cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash 6. Conclusion: Thinking beyond the National Inquiry: A Red Girl's Reasoning
1. Introduction: Violence Against Indigenous Women: Representation and Resistance 2. 1. Finding Dawn and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Story-Based Methods in Anti-Violence Research and Remembrance 3. 2. Narrative Appeals: The Stolen Sisters Report and Storytelling in Activist Discourse and Poetry 4. 3. Compelling Disclosures: Storytelling in Feminist Anti-Violence Discourse and Indigenous Women's Memoir 5. 4. Recognition, Remembrance, and Redress: The Politics of Memorialization in the Cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash 6. Conclusion: Thinking beyond the National Inquiry: A Red Girl's Reasoning
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