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A mind spread out on the ground
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2019
Book > Memoir
Creators
Elliott, Alicia
Description
"In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political—from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities. 

With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future"--publisher.
Language
English

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9780385692380; 0385692382
Statement of Responsibility
Alicia Elliott
Publication Information
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Physical Description
223 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
Issued also in electronic format.
Contents
A mind spread out on the ground -- Half breed: a racial biography in five parts -- On seeing and being seen -- Weight -- The same space -- Dark matters -- Scratch -- 34 grams per dose -- Boundaires like bruises -- On forbidden rooms and international forgetting -- Crude collages of my mother -- Not your noble savage -- Sontag, in snapshots: reflecting on "In Plato's Cave" in 2018 -- Extraction mentalities.
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