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1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"The chapters in this volume are drawn from papers presented at a Demcon workshop titled 'Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community, ' held at the University of Victoria in December 2006"--Page xi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 2. Narratives of contact and arrival in the Canadian political space. Canadian sovereignty and universal history / Michael Asch -- Historicizing narratives of arrival : the other Indian other / Audrey Macklin -- The conceit of sovereignty : toward post-colonial technique / Brenna Bhandar. |
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pt. 3. Narratives and narrative form. Show me yours / Richard Van Camp -- Horseflies, haireaters, and bulldogs : in conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht -- Counter-narratives of arrival and return : testing the interstices of resistance / Sneja Gunew -- Common ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin. |
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pt. 4. Contact and its narratives. Juxtaposing contact stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska -- Native women, the body, land, and narratives of contact and arrival / Kim Anderson -- The batman legend : remembering and forgetting the history of possession and dispossession / Bain Attwood -- Layered narratives in site-specific "wild" places / Jacinta Ruru. |
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pt. 5. Arrival and its narratives. Narratives of origins and the emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt -- "Robbed of a different life" : alternative histories, interrupted futures / Susan Bibler Coutin. |
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pt. 6. Institutional implications : how would we do things differently if we took narrative seriously? Toward a shared narrative of reconciliation : developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson -- Hoquotist : reorienting through storied practice / Johnny Mack -- Proof and narrative : "reproducing the facts" in refugee claims / Donald Galloway. |
| Summary |
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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State, The -- Congresses.
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State, The. |
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Folklore and nationalism -- Congresses.
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Folklore and nationalism. |
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Nationalism and collective memory -- Congresses.
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Nationalism and collective memory. |
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Storytelling -- Congresses.
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Storytelling. |
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Political participation -- Congresses.
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Indigenous peoples -- Congresses.
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Political participation. |
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Immigrants -- Congresses.
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Indigenous peoples. |
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Immigrants. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Lessard, Hester, 1948-
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Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-
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Webber, Jeremy H. A., 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Storied communities. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011 9780774818797 (DLC) 2011389655 (OCoLC)667805489 |
| ISBN |
9780774818810 (electronic book) |
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0774818816 (electronic book) |
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1283335700 |
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9781283335706 |
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9780774818797 |
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0774818794 |
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0774818808 |
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9780774818803 |
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