The Homing Place calls for a vital process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent since before the arrival of European Settlers centuries ago. Moreover, the text performs this process, creating a model for listening and incorporating Indigenous stories, throughout.
Rachel Bryant is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019) in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in K'jipuktuk.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Inscriptions of Possession and Place
Cultural Iconoclasm: John Gyles?s Atlantic Canadian Captivity Narrative
Canadian Exceptionalism: Finding Anna Brownell Jameson in the Anglo Atlantic World
Longing across the Line: Cultural Storytelling in the Northeast Borderlands
Making Words Walk: Jos¿phine Bacon?s Poetic Tshissinuatshitakana
"A wigwam on the hill": Meeting Rita Joe in Native Space
Cartographic Dissonance: Between Geographies in Douglas Glover?s Elle
Conclusion: The Homing Place
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