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Theatre of Regret Now Available in Paperback

February 17, 2022 · by · in Indigenous Futures, Indigenous Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetics, Reconciliation, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada is now available in paperback via UBC Press. Some of the chapters were developed out of writing that I first shared on this blog. For instance the post “Reconciliation: ‘Like an Echo Turned Inside Out’” is the basis of the book’s conclusion, […]

Theatre of Regret Now Available in Paperback

February 17, 2022 · by · in Indigenous Futures, Indigenous Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetics, Reconciliation, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

The Theatre of Regret is now available in paperback from UBC Press.

Gift Theory and the Settler State

November 18, 2014 · by · in Indigenous, Politics, Reconciliation · 1 Comment

French Anthropologist Marcel Mauss put gift theory into circulation long ago in 1923, but his ideas continue to make important contributions to contemporary studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Anthropology and, as I argue, Reconciliation Theory. Of special importance in Mauss’s work was his identification of “hau,” a “spiritual mechanism … which obliges us to make […]