Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction
5. Stories, Communities, and Their Contested Meanings 5
6. Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space
7. Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History 29
8. Historicizing Narratives of Arrival 40
9. The Conceit of Sovereignty 68
10. Narratives and Narrative Form
11. Show Me Yours 91
12. Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs 96
13. Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return 112
14. Common Ground around the Tower of Babel 125
15. Contact and Its Narratives
16. Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada 145
17. Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival 167
18. The Batman Legend 189
19. Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places 211
20. Arrival and Its Narratives
21. Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union 229
22. “Robbed of a Different Life” 245
23. Institutional Implications
24. Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation 271
25. Hoquotist 287
26. Proof and Narrative 308
27. Theoretical Implications
28. Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives 333
29. Contributors 351
30. Index 355