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Good Medicine Stories

Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian TRC, and Indigenous Resurgence
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Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian Residential School system, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the few commissions to have been established in a Western, long-standing liberal-democratic reality such as Canada’s. It thus becomes paramount to examine the extent to which the TRC’s core principles of truth-telling, restorative justice, and reconciliation engage in productive dialogue with the settler-colonial context of Canada and, particularly, with Indigenous philosophies and epistemologies. Good Medicine Stories does exactly that through the lens of fiction. Interweaving Indigenous, settler colonial, trauma and gender studies on the one hand, and intersecting literary, political, historical and cultural approaches on the other, Good Medicine Stories explores the capacities of Indigenous fiction for challenging and amplifying the work carried out by the Canadian TRC. Through analysis of a unique selection of Indigenous contemporary literary texts that were produced during and after the completion of the Canadian Commission, the book shows the role of fiction in keeping the dialogue on truth, justice, and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples open and relevant to our present and our future. It also demonstrates the role of Indigenous fiction in foregrounding Indigenous healing, spiritual regeneration and resurgence.

Author Biography:

Francesca Mussi has recently joined the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome as Adjunct Lecturer (docente a contratto) in English Literature, and is also “Cultore della Materia” in English Literature in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. In 2021, she completed a Leverhulme ECR fellowship in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, which led to two articles, “Land and Storytelling: Indigenous Pathways towards Justice, Healing and Spiritual Resurgence” (Journal of Commonwealth Literature in 2021), and “North American Indigenous Perceptions of the Apocalypse and a Renewal of Kinship Relationships through the Imagination” (Between in 2022). Her research interests also include decolonial theory, settler colonial studies, gender studies, trauma studies, ecocriticism, and South African literature. In May 2020 her first book Literary Legacies of the South African TRC: Fictional Journeys into Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation was published by Palgrave Macmillan and demonstrated the value of the TRC as a literary subject in contemporary South African fiction. Currently, she is also senior editor of the Postcolonial Studies Association’s Newsletter.
Release date NZ
September 28th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
256
ISBN-13
9781835536735
Product ID
38728608

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