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Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
Hester Lessard (Ed.)
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Description for Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
Hardback. An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. Editor(s): Lessard, Hester; Johnson, Rebecca; Webber, Jeremy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPA; LAQ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 680.
Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories – narratives of contact and narratives of arrival – helped to define settler societies. We are only beginning to understand how ongoing issues of migration and settlement are linked to issues of indigenous-settler contact.
Storied Communities disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors do not attempt to build a new master narrative – they instead juxtapose narratives of contact and arrival as they explore key themes: narrative and narrative ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774818797
SKU
V9780774818797
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About Hester Lessard (Ed.)
Hester Lessard is a professor of law at the University of Victoria. Rebecca Johnson is a professor of law at the University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and is also a Trudeau Fellow. Contributors: Kim Anderson, Bain Attwood, Michael Asch, Brenna Bhandar, J. Edward Chamberlin, Susan ... Read more
Reviews for Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
The book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states.
Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of ... Read more
Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of ... Read more