Angel / Robinson / Berthe Fragments of Truth

Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2317-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Canada established in 2008 to review the history of the Indian Residential School system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Angel, Naomi

Robinson, Dylan

Berthe, Jamie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Tracing Memory in Naomi Angel’s Archive / Jamie Berthe and Eugenia Kisin ix
Acknowledgments / Marita Sturken and Faye Ginsburg xix
Introduction. Reconciliation and Remembrance 1
1. Reconciliation as a Way of Seeing: The History and Context of the Indian Residential School System 19
2. Images of Contact: Archival Photographs and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada 54
3. Nations Gather: Public Testimony and the Politics of Affect 90
4. Reconciliation as a Ghostly Encounter: Discourses of Haunting and Indian Residential Schools 125
Conclusion. Fragments of Truth: Concluding Gestures 160
Notes 167
Bibliography 189
Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Angel (1977–2014) completed her PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in 2013.

Dylan Robinson is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University.

Jamie Berthe is Lecturer at New York University.