Taking Back Our Spirits : Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing, ...

Description: Taking Back Our Spirits : Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing, Paperback by Episkenew, Jo-Ann, ISBN 0887557104, ISBN-13 9780887557101, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Episkenew (English, First Nations U. of Canada) is a member of the Riel Local of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan. She explains how Indigenous literature responds to and critiques the policies of the Government of Canada, but also functions as a medicine to help cure the colonial contagion by healing the communities that these policies have injured. The master narrative of the nation-state valorizes settlers and misrepresents or excludes Indigenous people, she says, but Indigenous stories provide a counter to that by acknowledging and validating Indigenous people's experience, filling in the gaps, and correcting the falsehoods of the master narrative. Her topics include myth, policy, and health; policies of devastation; personal and healing stories; moving beyond the personal myth; and theater that heals wounded communities. Some of the material has been published in earlier form. Distributed in the US by Michigan State University Press. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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