ISBN

9780774818797

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber.

Publication Information

Vancouver : UBC Press

Physical Description

xii, 370 p. 24 cm.

Notes

"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"--P. [xi].

Contents

Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Stories, communities, and their contested meanings / 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 Bhandar -- 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 -- 17 Proof and narrative : "reproducing the facts" in refugee claims / Donald Galloway -- Part 7: Theoretical implications: where do we go from here? -- 18 Differentiating liberating stories from oppressive narratives : memory, land, and justice / Martha Nandorfy.