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Defamiliarizing the aboriginal : cultural practices and decolonization in Canada
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Defamiliarizing the aboriginal : cultural practices and decolonization in Canada

Author: Julia Emberley
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal, Julia V. Emberley examines the historical production of aboriginality in colonial cultural practices and its impact on the everyday lives of indigenous women,  Read more...

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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Julia Emberley
ISBN: 9780802091512 0802091512 9781442610255 1442610255
OCLC Number: 144602042
Description: xviii, 319 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Julia V. Emberley.

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