Learn, Teach, Challenge : Approaching Indigenous Literatures.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: POSITION -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Iskwewak Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Re-membering Being to Signifying Female Relations -- 3 "Introduction" from How Should I Read These? Native Women Writers in Canada -- 4 Teaching Aboriginal Literature: The Discourse of Margins and Mainstreams -- 5 "Preface" from Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada -- 6 Strategies for Ethical Engagement: An Open Letter Concerning Non-Native Scholars of Native Literatures -- 7 A Response to Sam McKegney's "Strategies for Ethical Engagement: An Open Letter Concerning Non-Native Scholars of Native Literatures" -- 8 Situating Self, Culture and Purpose in Indigenous Inquiry -- 9. Final Section Response: "The lake is the people and life that come to it": Location as Critical Practice" -- II: IMAGINING BEYOND IMAGES AND MYTHS -- 10 Introduction -- 11. A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction -- 12 Indian Love Call -- 13 "Introduction" and "Marketing the Imaginary Indian" from The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture -- 14 Postindian Warriors -- 15 Postcolonial Ghost Dancing: Diagnosing European Colonialism -- 16 The Trickster Moment, Cultural Appropriation, and the Liberal Imagination -- 17 Myth, Policy, and Health -- 18 Final Section Response: Imagining Beyond Images and Myths -- III: DELIBERATING INDIGENOUS LITERARY APPROACHES -- 19 Introduction -- 20 "Editor's Note" from Looking at the Words of Our People: First Nations Analysis of Literature -- 21 Native Literature: Seeking a Critical Centre" -- 22 Introduction. American Indian Literary Self-Determination -- 23 "Introduction" from Towards a Native American Critical Theory -- 24 Afterword: At the Gathering Place -- 25 Gdi-nweninaa: Our Sound, Our Voice.

26 Responsible and Ethical Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures -- 27 Final Section Response: Many Communities and the Full Humanity of Indigenous People: A Dialogue -- IV: CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS -- 28 Introduction -- 29 Appropriating Guilt: Reconciliation in an Indigenous Canadian Context -- 30 Moving Beyond 'Stock Narratives' of Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women: Reading the Poetry and Life Writing of Sarah de Vries -- 31 "Go Away Water!" Kinship Criticism and the Decolonization Imperative -- 32 Indigenous Storytelling, Truth-Telling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation -- 33 Erotica, Indigenous Style -- 34 Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies -- 35 Finding your Voice: Cultural Resurgence and Power in Political Movement -- 36 Final Section Response: From haa-huu-pah to the Decolonization Imperative: Responding to Contemporary Issues through the TRC -- V: CLASSROOM CONSIDERATIONS -- 37 Introduction -- 38 On the Hunting and Harvesting of Inuit Literature -- 39 "Ought We to Teach These?" Ethical, Responsible, and Aboriginal Cultural Protocols in the Classroom -- 40 Who Is the Text in This Class? Story, Archive, and Pedagogy in Indigenous Contexts -- 41 Teaching Literature as Testimony: Porcupines and China Dolls and the Testimonial Imaginary -- 42 "Betwixt and Between": alternative genres, language, and indigeneity -- 43 A Landless Territory? Augmented Reality, Land, and Indigenous Storytelling in Cyberspace -- 44 Final Section Response: Positioning Knowledges, Building Relationships, Practising Self-Reflection, Collaborating Across Differences -- Works Cited -- About the Contributors.

New and collected essays. A comprehensive view of critical approaches to and theories about Indigenous literatures today. Sections include Position, Imagining Beyond Images and Myths, Debating Indigenous Literary Approaches, Contemporary Concerns, and Classroom Considerations.

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