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Title First Person Plural : Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : UBC Press, 2011.

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Summary Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of "told-to" narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.
Contents 1. 'Where Is the Voice Coming From?': Appropriations and Subversions of the 'Native Voice' -- 2. Coming to Voice the North: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry and the Works of Hugh Brody -- 3. 'There Is a Time Bomb in Canada': The Legacy of the Oka Crisis -- 4. 'My Story Is a Gift': The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Politics of Reconciliation -- 5. 'What The Map Cuts Up, the Story Cuts Across': Translating Oral Traditions and Aboriginal Land Title -- 6. 'I Can Only Sing This Song to Someone Who Understands It': Community Filmmaking and the Politics of Partial Translation -- Conclusion: Collaborative Authorship and Literary Sovereignty.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245) and index.
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Subject Intercultural communication -- Canada.
Intercultural communication.
Canada.
Authorship -- Collaboration.
Authorship -- Collaboration.
Oral tradition -- Canada.
Native peoples -- Canada -- Communication.
Native peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
Oral tradition.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Added Author McCall, Sophie.
ISBN 9780774819794
0774819790
9780774819817 (e-book)
0774819812