The Testimonial Uncanny: Indigenous Storytelling, Knowledge, and Reparative Practices

List of Illustrations - vii Preface - ix Acknowledgments - xiii Introduction: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Testimonial Uncanny - 1 Part I: "A Witnessing Love": Testimony in Indigenous Storeyelling 1. On the Threshold between Silence and Storytelling - 39 2. Assembling Humanities in the Text: On Weeping, Hospitality, and Homecoming - 79 3. The Accidental Witness: The Wilkomirski Affair and the Spiritual Uncanny in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach - 109 Part II: For a Society Against the Racial Invagination of Power 4. On Not Being an Object of Violence: The Pickton Trial and Rebecca Belmore's Vigil - 133 5. Lessons in Love, Loss, and Recovery: and Lee Maracle's Ravensong - 156 6. Sacred Justice and an Ethics of Love in Marie Clements's The Unnatural and Accidental Women - 183 Part III: Ecologies of Kinship: Or, Lessons from the Land 7. The Storyteller, the Witness, and the Novel: Louise Erdrich's Tracks - 213 8. (un)Housing Aboriginality in the Virtual Museum: Civilization.ca and Reservation X - 230 9. Ecologies of Attachment: "Tree Wombs," Sacred Bones, and Resistance to Postindustrial Dismemberment in Patricia Grace's Potiki and Baby No-Eyes - 254 Conclusion: The Indigenous Uncanny as Reparative Episteme - 289 Notes - 301 Works Cited - 315 Index - 329