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Title:
Violence against indigenous women : literature, activism, resistance
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2017]

©2017
Physical Description:
xv, 281 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781771122399
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.
Contents:
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 indigenous women's memoir -- Recognition, remembrance, and redress : the politics of memorialization in the cases of Helen Betty Osborne and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash.
Language:
English
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