Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal : : Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada / / Julia V. Emberley.
From the Canadian Indian Act to Freud's Totem and Taboo to films such as Nanook of the North, all manner of cultural artefacts have been used to create a distinction between savagery and civilization. In Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal, Julia V. Emberley examines the historical production of abo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Of Soft and Savage Bodies in the Colonial Domestic Archive
- 1. An Origin Story of No Origins: Biopolitics and Race in the Geographies of the Maternal Body
- 2. The Spatial Politics of Homosocial Colonial Desire in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North
- 3. Originary Violence and the Spectre of the Primordial Father: A Biotextual Reassemblage
- 4. Post/Colonial Masculinities: The Primitive Duality of 'ma, ma, man' in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy
- 5. The Family in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Aboriginality in the Photographic Archive
- 6. Inuit Mother Disappeared: The Police in the Archive, 1940-1949
- 7. The Possibility of Justice in the Child's Body: Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson's Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
- 8. Genealogies of Difference: Revamping the Empire? or, Queering Kinship in a Transnational Decolonial Frame
- Conclusion: De-signifying Kinship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index