Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson’s Work
Abstract: Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson’s Work Kit Dobson Readers approaching Eden Robinson’s work from within contemporary colonial ...
Indigenizing Author Meets Critics: Collaborative Indigenous Literary Scholarship
Abstract: Part 4 of "Thinking Together: A Forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing."
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
Indigenous Literary Expressions of Matriarchal Worlding as Kinship
Abstract: This article documents my journey into the world of Indigenous women’s literatures, to offer visions of matriarchal worlding as kinship. Selected writings offer Indigenous feminist analyses within the context of the white heteronormative violence that shapes our contemporary world. Indigenous women’s literatures are resonant and offer a felt sense of home and community. As a segue into matriarchal worlding as kinship, I prompt readers to consider the implications of applying feminist analysis to Canadian literature before offering a textual analysis of Lee Maracle’s Ravensong. Specifically, I urge readers to consider the critical lessons that Ravensong offers us about the state of our world today and imagine the altered possibilities of matriarchal worlding. The texts inspire readers to humbly journey with time, interrogate the past that has so powerfully shaped our current realities, and recall the story medicines offered by Maracle as a way to envision just and empowered futures.
Infanticide, Suicide, Matricide, and Mother-Daughter Love: Suzanne Jacob’s L’obéissance and Ying Chen’s L’ingratitude
Abstract: Fiction has the power to create a space where theunspeakable can be represented and explored. One of our greatest taboos, ...
Infinite Signs: Alberto Kurapel and the Semiotics of Exile
Abstract: “Las luces se apagan solo queda una zona atrâs junto al desfiladero donde tendre que reventar y maquillarme maquillarme y ...
Influences
Abstract: IT WAS ONLY AFTER ? PUBLISHED A BOOK that I was forced to consider the question of influence on my ...
Initiation and Quest: Early Canadian Journals
Abstract: ?[HE EARLIEST of the Canadian captives to write a narrativein IHE English was Pierre-Esprit Radisson who was captured by the ...
Inside the Trade: An Editor’s Notes
Abstract: FMY EARLIEST YEARS I wanted to be an editor. If an • ROM anxious aunt had asked me, “What are ...
Insite: Place d’Armes
Abstract: SCOTT SYMONS’ Place d’Armes is an experimental novel whose typographical variety, maps and diary format reflect a McLuhanesque aesthetic sense ...
Internalized Racism: Physiology and Abjection in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
Abstract: This paper addresses physiological responses to psychological trauma. It argues that the narratorâ??s experience in a World War II internment camp disrupts not only her mental processes and her ability to narrate traumatic events but that it interrupts her physical aging process (the body's narrative) as well. Sakamoto's novel demonstrates that internalized racism can reveal itself externally on the body. Traumatized individuals in the novel come to understand themselves as figures of abjection at community and national levels as the polity attempts to expel those whom it sees as harmful to the social body.