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Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada (Literary Criticism) Paperback – May 25, 2005

by Renate Eigenbrod (Author)
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In the context of de/colonization, the boundary between an Aboriginal text and the analysis by a non-Aboriginal outsider poses particular challenges often constructed as unbridgeable. Eigenbrod argues that politically correct silence is not the answer but instead does a disservice to the literature that, like all literature, depends on being read, taught, and disseminated in various ways. In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod suggests decolonizing strategies when approaching Aboriginal texts as an outsider and challenges conventional notions of expertise. She concludes that literatures of colonized peoples have to be read ethically, not only without colonial impositions of labels but also with the responsibility to read beyond the text or, in Lee Maracle's words, to become "the architect of great social transformation."

Features the works of: Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Louise Halfe (Cree), Margo Kane (Saulteaux/Cree), Maurice Kenny (Mohawk), Thomas King (Cherokee, living in Canada), Emma LaRocque (Cree/Metis), Lee Maracle (Sto:lo/Metis), Ruby Slipperjack (Anishnaabe), Lorne Simon (Miíkmaq), Richard Wagamese (Anishnaabe), and Emma Lee Warrior (Peigan).

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  1. Print length
    274 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Manitoba Press
  4. Publication date
    May 25, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0887556817
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0887556814
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“Eigenbrod’s careful examination of the migrating and border-crossing of First Nations literature, and of her own position as an immigrant researcher of that literature, provides an important contribution to the field. … Her detailed, careful and culturalyu-situated readings of these under-studied texts, and of several that are central in the Native-Canadian canon, will make this volume useful to all readers of Native literature, both Native and non-Native.” ― Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 28 no.1, 2008

“One of the most difficult yet crucial tasks non-Aboriginal teachers and critics of Aboriginal literature find themselves facing is working out an ethical position from which to operate. The result of long years of reflection and successful teaching of, and writing about, Aboriginal literatures, Renate Eigenbrod’s Travelling Knowledges is a welcome guide to achieving this complex task.”

― Chimo, Spring 2008

“Eigenbod offers a thorough and unassuming proposal on how to read and critique Aboriginal literature with both integrity and cultural literacy.” -- Naomi McIlwraith ― American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, Issue 1, 2006

"[Eigenbrod’s] sensitive discussion of both texts and contexts is quite engaging, and her close readings of texts by writers such as Maurice Kenny, Lee Maracle, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias, Richard Wagamese, and Maria Campbell are particularly astute. …Throughout Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod skilfully manoevers through the experiential, ethical, and intellectual complexities of studying Aboriginal literatures with a keen eye, a thoughtful mind, and an open heart. Such work offers much for Native and non-Native readers, and it is a very welcome addition to the field.”

-- Daniel Heath Justice ― University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 76.1, 2007

About the Author

Renate Eigenbrod teaches Aboriginal Literature in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba and is co-editor of Creating Community: A Roundtable on Canadian Aboriginal Literatures.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Manitoba Press (May 25, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0887556817
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0887556814
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
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Henry Berry
5.0 out of 5 stars deeper, broader appreciation of literature of indigenous Canadians by immigrants to Canada
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2005
Eigenbrod explains the unusual term "Im/Migrant" of the subtitle: "I read Canadian Indigenous literatures from an immigrant perspective, but in a migrant fashion." This allows for a dualistic understanding "that can understand texts different from us and understand them to be different from us..."; a subtle distinction whose two elements allow for not only conceptual understanding, but also aesthetic and cultural appreciation of aboriginal literatures by recognition of the traditions and ways of life they are rooted in. Eigenbrod's work is not about ancient Native American folk tales, myths, etc., but about coming to proper--literarily, culturally, and ethically proper--understandings of modern and contemporary First Nations literature as much as this is possible by outsiders. A primary, though not dominating strand of the work of literary analysis and cultural understanding is the author's biographical story of how she came to the positioning (method or structure are too strong) she expounds as a German-Canadian. The proper understanding of Native American literature she develops and commends depends partly on comprehending one's own ethnicity, heritage, position in society, and personality. Eigenbrod is a teacher of Aboriginal Literature at the U. of Manitoba.
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