Social Science Native American Studies
Storied Communities
Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2011
- Category
- Native American Studies, Historiography, Civil Law, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774818803
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774818797
- Publish Date
- Dec 2010
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774818810
- Publish Date
- Jan 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
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
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.
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