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By Emma LaRocque ISBN: 9780887557033format: Paperback pages: 250 publisher: University of Manitoba Press pub. date: 2008-01-15 |
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Winner of the 2011 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.
In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other Is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the post-colonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and literary writing, its effects on both popular culture and Canadian intellectual development, and Native and non-Native intellectual responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism, exaggeration of Native "difference," and the continuing problem of internalization that challenges our understanding of the colonizer/colonized relationship.
Dr. LaRocque is a scholar, writer, poet, and a professor in the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba (since 1977). She specializes in colonization and its impact on Native/White relations, particularly in the areas of cultural productions and representation.
LaRocque continues to research colonial interference and Aboriginal resistance strategies in the areas of literature, historiography, representation, identity, gender roles, industrial encroachment on Aboriginal (Indian and Métis) lands and resources, and governance.
Dr. LaRocque is the author of Defeathering The Indian (1975); she has also written numerous scholarly and popular articles on images of "Indians" in the media and marketplace, Canadian historiography, Native literature, education, racism, and violence against women. Her poetry has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies.
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