Between vulnerability and resistance : Rhetorical strategies in
Indigenous Canadian nonfiction

J 2021

Between vulnerability and resistance : Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

Between vulnerability and resistance : Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction

Autoři

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

Vydání

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, Sage Publications, 2021, 0021-9894

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/21:00120982

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989420975049

UT WoS

000608798200001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Canadian literature; Henry Kreisel Lecture series; Indigenous nonfiction; resistance; vulnerability; Eden Robinson; Tomson Highway; Judith Butler

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 10. 2. 2022 14:07, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

This article explores two Henry Kreisel lectures by Indigenous authors, Eden Robinson’s The Sasquatch At Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling (2010, published 2011) and Tomson Highway’s A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism (2014, published 2015), to demonstrate how Indigenous nonfiction employs complex rhetorical strategies in order to engage cross-cultural readers and address crucial issues related to contemporary Indigeneity. Both narratives are claimed to convey a fragile balance between cultural loss and cultural survival — a negotiation which is related theoretically to Judith Butler’s notions of vulnerability, precarity, and resistance, particularly to her premise that vulnerability and resistance do not have to be opposed and/or mutually exclusive but rather work in intricate relationships. The article shows that while Robinson (Haisla/Heiltsuk) combines family stories with ethnography to bear witness to both the precarity and resilience of Haisla cultural and ecological survival, Highway (Cree) presents a multimodal and multilingual performance to unsettle his audience through combining humor and confrontation. I ultimately argue that, if Indigenous writing has always expressed this duality of exposing vulnerability as well as inscribing resistance, then, it may serve as a model for transcending the binary structure powerful/powerless, a move that Butler sees as fundamental to her redefinition of vulnerability. In other words, through this optic the history of Indigenous writing is indeed a history of exploring the ways in which vulnerability and resistance relate and interweave, rather than stand in opposition.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1446/2020, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies

Přiložené soubory

PUBLISHED_in_JCL.pdf

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Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Between vulnerability and resistance : Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications, 2021, roč. 56, č. 3, s. 390-403. ISSN 0021-9894. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989420975049.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Between vulnerability and resistance : Rhetorical strategies in Indigenous Canadian nonfiction. \textit{The Journal of Commonwealth Literature}. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage Publications, 2021, roč.~56, č.~3, s.~390-403. ISSN~0021-9894. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989420975049.

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