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

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

PublisherState University of New York Press
Cover Art byMarianne Nicolson
Cover photoTrevor Mills, Henri Robideau
ProductionJenn Bennett
Marketing/AdvertisingAnne M. Valentine
Copyright HolderState University of New York
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationAlbany, New York
Copyright2004
Pages / Font338 pages
ISBN 13978-1-4384-5361-3
Library of Congress Classification Number2013049819
Library of Congress Call NumberPN491.4.E43 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification Number809'.933897—dc23
Printer's Key10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Barcode9 781438 453613
Barcode9781438453613
EAN 59000>
ChaptersList 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
NotesCover: "Marianne Nicolson The House of The Ghosts, 2008 site-specific light projection with banner Commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery for NEXT: A Series of artist projects from the Pacific Rim, October 4, 2008 to January 11, 2009 Photo: Trevor Mills and Henri Robideau, Vancouver Art Gallery" "Printed in the United States of America"
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