Fragments of truth : Indian residential schools and the challenge of reconciliation in Canada
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- ISBN: 9781478015932 (hardcover)
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xxii, 217 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm - Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Reconciliation as a way of seeing : the history and context of the Indian residential school system -- Images of contact : archival photographs and the work of reconciliation in Canada -- Nations gather : public testimony and the politics of affect -- Reconciliation as a ghostly encounter : discourses of haunting and Indian residential schools. |
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Topic Heading: | Indigenous. First Nations Canada. |
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- Duke Univ Pr
In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings, Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern nations, Angel demonstrates how the TRC offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of Canadaâs Indigenous populations. - Duke Univ Pr
Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Canada established in 2008 to review the history of the Indian Residential School system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children.