Title:
Violence against Indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance / Allison Hargreaves.
Author:
Hargreaves, Allison, 1981- author.
Publication Information:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]
©2017
Call Number:
PR9185.6.I5 H37 2017
Abstract:
"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."-- From publisher's website.
"With the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation is now underway. Indigenous women's literature is a critical site of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing intellectual history of Indigenous women's resistance."-- From publisher's website.
ISBN:
9781771122399
Series:
Indigenous studies series
Indigenous studies series.
Physical Description:
xv, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
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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 indigeonous 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.
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