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Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories – narratives of contact and narratives of arrival – helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

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Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories – narratives of contact and narratives of arrival – helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

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Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

Overview

Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories – narratives of contact and narratives of arrival – helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780774818797
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Publication date: 12/15/2010
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Hester Lessard is a professor of law at the University of Victoria. Rebecca Johnson is a professor of law at the University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and is also a Trudeau Fellow. Contribubutors include Kim Anderson, Bain Attwood, Michael Asch, Brenna Bhandar, J. Edward Chamberlin, Susan Bibler Coutin, Donald Galloway, Anne Godlewska, Sneja Gunew, Johnny Mack, Audrey Macklin, Martha Nandorfy, Jacinta Ruru, Blanca Schorcht, S. Ronald Stevenson, Patricia Tuitt, and Richard Van Camp.

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction

1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber

Part 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space

2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch

3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin

4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhanda 

Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form

5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp

6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht

7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew

8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin

Part 4: Contact and Its Narratives

9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska

10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson

11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood

12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific “Wild” Places / Jacinta Ruru

Part 5: Arrival and Its Narratives

13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt

14 “Robbed of a Different Life”: Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler Coutin

Part 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously?

15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson

16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack

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What People are Saying About This

Constance MacIntosh

Delightfully original and daring . . . presents the most original and challenging uses of narrative methodology as a tool for legal and political analysis.

Shauna Van Praagh

It is neither easy nor commonplace in contemporary Canada to realize a coming together of storytellers and scholars immersed in Aboriginal identities on one hand and recent immigrant identities on the other. That is what this book promises and largely delivers.

From the Publisher

"It is neither easy nor commonplace in contemporary Canada to realize a coming together of storytellers and scholars immersed in Aboriginal identities on one hand and recent immigrant identities on the other. That is what this book promises and largely delivers."—Shauna Van Praagh, Faculty of Law, McGill University

"Delightfully original and daring . . . presents the most original and challenging uses of narrative methodology as a tool for legal and political analysis."—Constance MacIntosh, Dalhousie University

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