Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada
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 and 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...
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Preface : coming to theoryIntroduction : bridging the gap or squaring the circle? : a retrospective3Routes or roots?The rhetoric of mobility21An ethics of readingPositioning the immigrant critic39The question of cultural literacy59Reading for boundary de/constructionsContextualizing the other69The problem of essentializing111Reading for movement and migrationColonial boundaries, de-colonial movements121Moving between cultures, languages, and literacies139Travelling knowledgesThe "trickster's" wanderlust and the continuum of reading161The quest for identity173The global search for truth and justice : Lee Maracle's "Sojourner's truth"191
