When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and literary writing, its effects on both popular culture and Canadian intellectual development, and Native and non-Native intellectual responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism, exaggeration of Native difference, and the continuing problem of internalization that challenges our understanding of the colonizer/colonized relationship.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 03/15/2010
ISBN: 9780887557033
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.38w x 0.58d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 61