Introduction : Indigenous epistemologies and the testimonial uncanny -- On the threshold between silence and storytelling -- Assembling humanities in the text : on weeping, hospitality and homecoming -- The accidental witness : the Wilkomirski affair and the spiritual uncanny in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach -- On not being an object of violence : the Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore's Vigil -- Lessons in love, loss and recovery : the life of Helen Betty Osborne : a graphic novel and Lee Maracle's Ravensong -- Sacred justice and an ethics of love in Marie Clements's The unnatural and accidental women -- The storyteller, the novel, and the witness : Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- (un)housing aboriginality in the virtual museum : civilization.ca and Reservation X -- Ecologies of attachment : tree wombs, sacred bones, and resistance to post-industrial dismemberment in Patricia Grace's Potiki and baby no-eyes -- Conclusion : the Indigenous uncanny as reparative episteme
Summary
"Introduces readers to cultural practices and theoretical texts concerned with bringing Indigenous epistemologies to the discussion of trauma and colonial violence."--Back cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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