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Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada »

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Authors: Renate Eigenbrod
ISBN-13: 9780887556814, ISBN-10: 0887556817
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Renate Eigenbrod

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Table of Contents

Preface : coming to theory
Introduction : bridging the gap or squaring the circle? : a retrospective3
Routes or roots?
The rhetoric of mobility21
An ethics of reading
Positioning the immigrant critic39
The question of cultural literacy59
Reading for boundary de/constructions
Contextualizing the other69
The problem of essentializing111
Reading for movement and migration
Colonial boundaries, de-colonial movements121
Moving between cultures, languages, and literacies139
Travelling knowledges
The "trickster's" wanderlust and the continuum of reading161
The quest for identity173
The global search for truth and justice : Lee Maracle's "Sojourner's truth"191

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