Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature - Softcover

St. Amand, Isabelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887558194 ISBN 13: 9780887558191

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press, 2018

Synopsis

In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis―or the Kanehsatake Resistance―exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada.

In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society had imagined was on the verge of disappearance. The 78-day standoff also reactivated a long history of Indigenous people’s resistance to colonial policies aimed at assimilation and land appropriation.

The land dispute at the core of this conflict raises obvious political and judicial issues, but it is also part of a wider context that incites us to fully consider the ways in which histories are performed, called upon, staged, told, imagined, and interpreted.

"Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature" examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. This new English edition of St-Amand’s interdisciplinary, intercultural, and multi-perspective work offers a framework for thinking through the relationships that both unite and oppose settler societies and Indigenous peoples in Canada.

About this title

About the Author:

ISABELLE ST-AMAND is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University. Her research as a settler scholar focuses on Indigenous literary criticism in Quebec and Canada. 

Review:

“This timely translation and updated edition of Isabelle St-Amand’s La crise d’Oka en récits: territoire, cinéma et littérature (2015) allows her important work to circulate in a new context and reach a wider audience, something especially crucial considering the continued relevance of its topic.” (Joëlle Papillon Quebec Studies)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0887558194
• ISBN 13: 9780887558191
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328