Rhetorical Strategies in Thomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel
Lecture

k 2018

Rhetorical Strategies in Thomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

Rhetorical Strategies in Thomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture

Autoři

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

CEACS Triennial Conference, Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment, 20-22 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105672

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Thomson Highway; Henry Kreisel lecture; rhetorical strategies;

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 29. 1. 2019 18:14, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In 2014, Thomson Highway, the prominent Cree writer and artist, delivered his lecture-performance in the Henry Kreisel lecture series, organized annually by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Literature Centre since 2007 in order to showcase diverse voices of contemporary Canadian writers and artists. Titled A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism (published in 2015 by the University of Alberta Press), his talk was one of three in the series presented by Indigenous writers: similarly to Joseph Boyden and Eden Robinson, Highway used the opportunity to engage cross-cultural audiences by addressing a variety of issues related to contemporary Indigeneity. In the highly unruly multimodal and multilingual performance, Highway interpellates and confronts his audience through his characteristic humor as well as sharp critique, exposing the ultimate paradox of the cultural superiority of his ancestors on the one hand, and the ongoing precarity of contemporary Indigenous lives, particularly those of missing and murdered Indigenous women, on the other. My analysis of Highway’s performance will be contextualized within the established tradition of Indigenous intellectual thought prevalent in Indigenous nonfiction and will demonstrate the ways in which Highway’s rhetorical strategies both accommodate and unsettle his audience in a very playful manner which sheds light on Indigenous narrative efforts to communicate the fragile balance between cultural loss and cultural survival, efforts which may be perceived as helping us understand and appreciate Indigenous discourse from a transnational perspective.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Akronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Rhetorical Strategies in Thomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture. In CEACS Triennial Conference, Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment, 20-22 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. 2018.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Rhetorical Strategies in Thomson Highway’s Henry Kreisel Lecture. In \textit{CEACS Triennial Conference, Transnational Challenges to Canadian Culture, Society and the Environment, 20-22 September 2018, Prague, Czech Republic}. 2018.

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