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Social Science Native American Studies

Storied Communities

Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson & Jeremy Webber

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2011
Category
Native American Studies, Historiography, Civil Law, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774818803
    Publish Date
    Jul 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774818797
    Publish Date
    Dec 2010
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774818810
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $34.95

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Political communities are defined, and often contested, through stories. Scholars have long recognized that two foundational sets of stories – narratives of contact and narratives of arrival – helped to define settler societies. Storied Communities disrupts the assumption that Indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. The authors juxtapose narratives of contact and narratives of arrival as they explore key themes such as narrative form, the nature of storytelling in the political realm, and the institutional and theoretical implications of foundation narratives. By doing so, they open up new ways to imagine, sustain, and transform political communities.

About the authors

Hester Lessard's profile page

Rebecca Johnson is a professor of law and the associate director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.

Rebecca Johnson's profile page

Jeremy Webber's profile page

Editorial Reviews

The book is a welcome addition to the recent work of scholars such as Andrea Smith, Patrick Wolfe, Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, who have drawn fundamental connections between the structural elimination of Native peoples and the racialization of (and violence against) non-Native minority groups in settler colonial states.

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012