Defamiliarizing the aboriginal

Defamiliarizing the aboriginal: cultural practices and decolonization in Canada

by Emberley, Julia V.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Defamiliarizing the aboriginal : cultural practices and decolonization in Canada / Julia V. Emberley.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009, ©2007.

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"Reprinted in paperback 2009".-- T.p. verso.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xviii, 319 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780802091512, 0802091512, 9781442610255, 1442610255
  • oclc:ocn816763643
  • LC Classification:E78
  • Dewey Decimal:306.85089/97071

Table of Contents

Of soft and savage bodies in the colonial domestic archive -- An origin story of no origins: biopolitics and race in the geographies of the maternal body -- Spatial politics of homosocial colonial desire in Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North -- Originary violence and the spectre of the primordial father: a biotextual reassemblage -- Body, interrupted -- Pt. 1. Promiscuity in the germ cell of civilization -- Pt. 2. Tarzan (and Jane); or, savagery (and civilization) -- Pt. 3. Entering the Image/text/commodity matrix -- Post/colonial masculinities: the primitive duality of 'ma, ma, man' in Pat Barker's regeneration trilogy -- Family in the age of mechanical reproduction: aboriginality in the photographic archive -- Inuit mother disappeared: the police in the archive, 1940-1949 -- Possibility of justice in the child's body: Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson's Stolen Life: the journey of a Cree woman -- Genealogies of difference: revamping the empire? or, Queering kinship in a transnational decolonial frame -- Conclusion: de-signifying kinship.

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