I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781771124096
ISBN-13 : 1771124091
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? by : An Antane Kapesh

Download or read book I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? written by An Antane Kapesh and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada. This English translation of these works, each page presented facing the revised Innu text, makes them available for the first time to a broader readership. In I Am a Damn Savage, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – were aged or dying. She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system. What Have You Done to My Country? is a fictional account by a young boy of the arrival of les Polichinelles (referring to White settlers) and their subsequent assault on the land and on native language and culture. Through these stories Antane Kapesh asserts that settler society will eventually have to take responsibility and recognize its faults, and accept that the Innu – as well as all the other nations – are not going anywhere, that they are not a problem settlers can make disappear.

The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada

The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781000800944
ISBN-13 : 1000800946
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada by : Sonja Boon

Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada written by Sonja Boon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter nonfictional writing about individual lives and experiences—including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries, comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case studies to provide examples of how to study and research life narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada provides instructors and students with the contexts and the critical tools to discover the power of life writing, and the skills to study any kind of nonfiction, from Canada and around the world.

Exactly What I Said

Exactly What I Said
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780887552762
ISBN-13 : 0887552765
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Exactly What I Said by : Elizabeth Yeoman

Download or read book Exactly What I Said written by Elizabeth Yeoman and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You don’t have to use the exact same words.... But it has to mean exactly what I said.” Thus began the ten-year collaboration between Innu elder and activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and Memorial University professor Elizabeth Yeoman that produced the celebrated Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive, an English-language edition of Penashue’s journals, originally written in Innu-aimun during her decades of struggle for Innu sovereignty. Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds reflects on that collaboration and what Yeoman learned from it. It is about naming, mapping, and storytelling; about photographs, collaborative authorship, and voice; about walking together on the land and what can be learned along the way. Combining theory with personal narrative, Yeoman weaves together ideas, memories, and experiences––of home and place, of stories and songs, of looking and listening––to interrogate the challenges and ethics of translation. Examining what it means to relate whole worlds across the boundaries of language, culture, and history, Exactly What I Said offers an accessible, engaging reflection on respectful and responsible translation and collaboration.

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781350344471
ISBN-13 : 1350344478
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil by : Kathryn Lawson

Download or read book Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil written by Kathryn Lawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed radically distinct political philosophies. This unique dialogue between the writings of Arendt and Weil highlights Arendt's secular humanism, her emphasis on heroic action, and her rejection of the moral approach to politics, contrasted starkly with Weil's religious approach, her faith in the power of divine Goodness, and her other-centric ethic of suffering and affliction. The writings here respect the profound differences between Arendt and Weil whilst pulling out the shared preoccupations of power, violence, freedom, resistance, responsibility, attention, aesthetics, and vulnerability. Without shying away from exploring the more difficult concepts in these philosophers' works, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil also aims to pull out the relevance of their writings for contemporary issues.

The Eye of the Master

The Eye of the Master
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9780228016397
ISBN-13 : 0228016398
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Eye of the Master by : Dalie Giroux

Download or read book The Eye of the Master written by Dalie Giroux and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Québécois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The idea of mastery has prevented the Québécois from seeing that their liberation is bound up with that of other groups oppressed by colonial powers. The Eye of the Master confronts the missed opportunities for a decolonial version of indépendance in Quebec by examining the quest for mastery that has been at the root of every version of independence offered to the people of Quebec since the mid-twentieth century. Exploring political discourse, popular culture, and the family photo album, Dalie Giroux revisits the mythology of being “masters in our own house” and identifies the obstacles blocking a more comprehensive version of liberation based on solidarity. Drawing from the living forces of Indigenous thought and anti-racist, ecological, and feminist movements, Giroux envisions life without conquest, domination, exploitation, and surveillance. Making the case for a different future, beginning in the here and now, The Eye of the Master offers a major new intervention in contemporary political thought to Canadian readers and all those who imagine a different North America.

Manikanetish

Manikanetish
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Publisher : ARACHNIDE EDITIONS
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 1487008147
ISBN-13 : 9781487008147
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Manikanetish by : Naomi Fontaine

Download or read book Manikanetish written by Naomi Fontaine and published by ARACHNIDE EDITIONS. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young teacher's return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked
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Publisher : Book*hug Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 1771666412
ISBN-13 : 9781771666411
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Book Synopsis You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked by : Sheung-King

Download or read book You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked written by Sheung-King and published by Book*hug Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad-to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo-often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. YOU ARE EATING AN ORANGE. YOU ARE NAKED. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Asian-Canadian literature. Sheung-King has written a wonderfully unexpected and maverick love story but also a novel of ideas that hopscotches between Toronto, Macau, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Prague. It is enchanting, funny, and a joy to read.-Kyo Maclear