Naomi Angel

Fragments of Truth

Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Canada established in 2008 to review the history of the Indian Residential School system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015932
• ISBN-10: 1478015934
• Artikelnr.: 62758714

Autorenporträt

Naomi Angel. Edited by Dylan Robinson and Jamie Berthe.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Tracing Memory in Naomi Angel’s Archive / Jamie Berthe and Eugenia
Kisin  ix
Acknowledgments / Marita Sturken and Faye Ginsburg  xix
Introduction. Reconciliation and Remembrance  1
1. Reconciliation as a Way of Seeing: The History and Context of the Indian
Residential School System  19
2. Images of Contact: Archival Photographs and the Work of Reconciliation
in Canada  54
3. Nations Gather: Public Testimony and the Politics of Affect  90
4. Reconciliation as a Ghostly Encounter: Discourses of Haunting and Indian
Residential Schools  125
Conclusion. Fragments of Truth: Concluding Gestures    160
Notes  167
Bibliography  189
Index  207