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Violence Against Indigenous Women - Literature, Activism, Resistance (Paperback)
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Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis,
with roots deep in the nation's colonial history. Despite numerous
policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous
women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate
rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant
anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of
contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the
important role that literature and storytelling can play in
response to gendered colonial violence. Indigenous communities have
been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but
the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered
broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the
conversation by analyzing the socially interventionist work of
Indigenous women poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and
fiction-writers. Organized as a series of case studies that pair
literary interventions with recent sites of activism and
policy-critique, the book puts literature in dialogue with
anti-violence debate to illuminate new pathways toward action. With
the advent of provincial and national inquiries into missing and
murdered Indigenous women and girls, a larger public conversation
is now underway. Indigenous women's literature is a critical site
of knowledge-making and critique. Violence Against Indigenous Women
provides a foundation for reading this literature in the context of
Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism and the ongoing
intellectual history of Indigenous women's resistance.
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