When The Other Is Me

by LaRocque, Emma

• ISBN13: 9780887557033
• ISBN10: 0887557031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Manitoba Pr

Summary

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing produced in Canada between 1850 and 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and literary writing, its eff ects on both popular culture and Canadian intellectual development, and Native and non-Native responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism, exaggeration of Native "diff erence," and the continuing problem of internalization that challenges our understanding of the colonizer/colonized relationship.

Author Biography

Emma LaRocque is a scholar, author, poet, social and literary critic, and professor in the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. She is the author of the groundbreaking book, Defeathering the Indian, and has also written extensively on contemporary Aboriginal literatures, Canadian historiography, and images of Aboriginal people in the media and marketplace. She is a Plains Cree Metis from northeastern Alberta.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Representation and Resistance	p. 3
Insider Notes: Reframing the Narratives	p. 17
Dehumanization in Text	p. 37
Currency and Social Effects of Dehumanization	p. 59
Native Writers Resist: Addressing Invasion	p. 73
Native Writers Resist: Addressing Dehumanization	p. 95
An Intersection: Internalization, Difference, Criticism	p. 119
Native Writers Reconstruct: Pushing Paradigms	p. 146
Postscript: Decolonizing Postcolonials	p. 161
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 194
Index	p. 214
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