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