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Violence against indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance

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    Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library Service
    Running Time: 07:37 hrs
    Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2021
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2017
    Summary:

    Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair literary interventions with recent sites of activism and policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action.

    Contents:
    • Introduction : violence against indigenous women : representation and resistance
    • Finding Dawn and the missing women commission of inquiry : story-based methods in anti-violence research and remembrance
    • Narrative appeals : the Stolen sisters report and storytelling in activist discourse and poetry
    • Compelling disclosures : storytelling in feminist anti-violence discourse and indigenous women's memoir
    • Recognition, remembrance, and redress : the politics of memorialization in the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash
    • Conclusion : thinking beyond the national inquiry : A Red girl's reasoning.
    Original Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771122504, 1771122501, 9781771122498, 1771122498