The decolonizing poetics of indigenous literatures

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  • Author: Neuhaus, Mareike
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    In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical traditions that underpin its cultural and historical contexts.

    Subject(s): Canada
    Original Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2015
    Language(s): English

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Abstract

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical traditions that underpin its cultural and historical contexts.

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Canadian nonfiction
Indigenous materials
Literature
Subject
Canada
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Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2015

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9780889773905

0889773904

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