Title The theatre of regret : literature, art, and the politics of reconciliation in Canada / David Gaertner

Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Bearing Witness to the TRC -- 1 The Theatre of Regret: The Politics of Reconciliation after the Second World War -- 2 Listen to the Bones: Colonial Static and the Call for Reconciliation -- 3 To Acknowledge, but Not to Accept: Critical Reflections on Settler State Apologies -- 4 Redress as a Gift: Historical Reparations and the Logic of the Gift -- 5 An Exercise in Forgiveness: Confronting the Risk of Forgiveness and Empathy -- Conclusion: "Shallow Reconciliation" and the Indigenous Future Imaginary Summary "The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous-settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics, as developed in South America and South Africa, work counter to retributive justice. The Theatre of Regret asks whether - within the contexts of settler colonialism - this approach will ultimately favour the state over the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature, art, and other creative media throughout his analysis, David Gaertner questions the state-centred frameworks of reconciliation by exploring the critical roles that Indigenous and allied authors play in defining, challenging, and refusing settler regret. In 2007, Canada became the first liberal democracy to formally implement a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process, a prominent element of global intrastate politics in the 1990s. Through close examination of core concepts in reconciliation theory - acknowledgement, apology, redress, and forgiveness - Gaertner unpacks reconciliation within the contexts of Canadian settler colonialism and the international history of the TRC. In so doing, he exposes the deeply embedded colonial ideologies that often define reconciliation in settler colonial states. The Theatre of Regret redirects current debates about reconciliation and provides a roadmap for the deconstruction of state-centred discourses of regret."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Canadian Literary Criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2020) Subject Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. SUBJECT Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada fast (OCoLC)fst01917590 Subject Truth commissions -- Canada Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Canada Reconciliation in literature. Indigenous art -- Canada Indigenous art Race relations Reconciliation in literature Reconciliation -- Political aspects Truth commissions SUBJECT Canada -- Race relations Subject Canada Form Electronic book ISBN 9780774865388 9780774865395 0774865377 0774865385 0774865393 9780774865371

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