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The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literature

The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literature

By Mareike Neuhaus
Categories:
Indigenous
General
Indigenous Studies
Paperback : 9780889773905, 295 pages, November 2015

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Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Indigenous Poetics and Holophrastic Reading

PART 1: A PRIMER ON HOLOPHRASTIC READING
 
Chapter 1: Indigenous Language and Discourse Traditions: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Holophrastic Reading: A Heuristic
Chapter 3: Alphabetical List of Critical Terms

PART 2: HOLOPHRASTIC READINGS OF INDIGENOUS WRITING

Chapter 4: Ancestral Language Influences
Chapter 5: Indigenous Narratology
Chapter 6: Historical Trauma and Healing
Chapter 7: Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
Chapter 8: (Radical) Departures of Indigenous Literatures

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Acknowledgements
Works Cited
Index

Description

By uncovering residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English, Mareike Neuhaus shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literatures in their own right.