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Travelling knowledges : positioning the im/migrant reader of aboriginal literatures in Canada

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    University of Manitoba Press, 2005

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    2005
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    In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is not the answer but instead does a disservice to the literature that, like all literature, depends on being read, taught, and disseminated in various ways. In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod suggests decolonizing strategies when approaching Aboriginal texts as an outsider and challenges conventional notions of expertise. She concludes that literatures of colonized peoples have to be read ethically, not only without colonial impositions of labels but also with the responsibility to read beyond the text or, in Lee Maracle’s words, to become “the architect of great social transformation.”

    Contents:
    • Preface: coming to theory
    • Introduction: bridging the gap or squaring the circle? a retrospective
    • Routes or roots?: the rhetoric of mobility
    • An ethics of reading: Positioning the immigrant critic; The question of cultural literacy
    • Reading for boundary de/constructions: Contextualizing the other; The problem of essentializing
    • Reading for movement and migration: Colonial boundaries, de-Colonial movements; Moving between cultures, languages, and literacies
    • Travelling knowledges: The "trickster's" wanderlust and the continuum of reading; The quest for identity; The global search for truth and justice: Le Maracle's "Sojourner's truth."
    Original Publisher: Winnipeg, Man., University of Manitoba Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0887556817, 9780887556814, 9780887553899, 0887553893, 1283091356, 9781283091350, 9786613091352, 6613091359, 9780887559822