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Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada

Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada

Eigenbrod, Renate

Paperback

Series: Literary Criticism

Canadian HistoryLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $28.95

ISBN10: 0887556817
ISBN13: 9780887556814
Publisher: Univ Of Manitoba
Published: May 25 2005
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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.

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