Indigenous Literature and De/Colonization: Bernard Assiniwi’s La Saga des Béothuks

Authors

  • Roland Walter UFPE/CNPq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2019v28n1.49878

Keywords:

literatura indígena do Canadá, des/ colonização terra, gênero, memória

Abstract

By situating Bernard Assiniwi’s book at the colonization–decolonization interface of First Nations, this essay focuses on three main issues: land qua inhabited/ imagined geography of the Beothuks; gender as one of the pillars of this geography in pre/ postcolonial times; memory as a strategy of justice and decolonization. The objective is to problematize how Assiniwi emancipates la memória sequestrada (Galeano) of the Beothuks by means of a mythopoetics that reveals one of the dark aspects of Canada’s bloody past: the genocide of the Beothuks.

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Published

2019-12-17

How to Cite

WALTER, R. . Indigenous Literature and De/Colonization: Bernard Assiniwi’s La Saga des Béothuks . Revista Ártemis, [S. l.], v. 28, n. 1, p. 27–37, 2019. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2019v28n1.49878. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/artemis/article/view/49878. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.

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Section

Literatura indígena, pensamento decolonial e gênero