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8 Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices, and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools

© 2022 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation
  6. 1 Neoliberal Heritage Redress 31
  7. 2 The Apologizers’ Apology 47
  8. 3 The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress 63
  9. II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law
  10. 4 Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax 87
  11. 5 On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics 100
  12. 6 Incomprehensible Canada 115
  13. III. Testimony and Truth Telling
  14. 7 Towards a Hopeful Practice of Worrying: The Problematics of Listening and the Educative Responsibilities of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 129
  15. 8 Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices, and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools 143
  16. 9 Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights 159
  17. IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory
  18. 10 Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women 181
  19. 11 “The Compulsion to Tell Falls on the Next Generation”: Ukrainian Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past 198
  20. V. Performing Redress
  21. 12 Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards 217
  22. 13 The Nonperformativity of Reconciliation: The Case of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec 236
  23. VI. Redress and Transnationalism: Thinking Apology beyond the Nation
  24. 14 Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading “Asian Canadian” in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto’s One Hundred Million Hearts 263
  25. 15 Rendition and Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, Exceptionality 278
  26. APPENDICES
  27. A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools 299
  28. B. Acadian Deportations 340
  29. C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices 346
  30. D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions 358
  31. E. Indian Passengers on the Komagata Maru 380
  32. F. First World War Internments 394
  33. G. Second World War Internments 405
  34. H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St Louis 443
  35. I. Doukhobor Residential Schools 449
  36. Credits 459
  37. Contributors 463
  38. Index 467
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