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A Magnificent Work

A Magnificent Work

Oudshoorn, Daniel

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Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1725266113
ISBN13: 9781725266117
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: Jun 22 2020
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Magnificent Work is an autobiographical exploration of the interconnectedness of toxic masculinity, White supremacy, and settler colonialism within the context of Canadian-occupied territories. It is a work of documentary fiction (to use the term of W. G. Sebald) or autotheory (as proposed by Maggie Nelson). Oudshoorn moves from relating his personal experiences as both a son and a father to exploring the ways in which similar events have played out on a much larger scale within the Canadian occupation. Special attention is given to the history of the Mohawk Institute, Canada's oldest and longest-running Indian Residential School. Thus, although an Anglican bishop once described the Mohawk Institute as a magnificent work, Oudshoorn argues that the truly magnificent work that awaits people like him--notably, cishet male settlers of Christian and European descent--is the process of embodying a gentle masculinity, recovering a sense of one's proper place of connectedness within a network of relationships with varying degrees of responsibility and accountability, and striving towards decolonization.

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