ENGL 3481H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Privilege, Richard Wagamese, Douglas & Mcintyre

• School: Trent University
• Department: English Literature
• Course: ENGL 3481H
• Professor: Katrin Urschel

Document Summary

Government of canada; it also functions as medicine" to help cure the colonial contagion by healing the communities that these policies have injured (2) Master narrative obliterated relevance of indigenous knowledge (2: myth of white superiority & structural racism based on white privilege; the nation was founded on a practice of psychological terrorism and theft instead of democratic equality and liberalism (5) Indian policies supposedly to help indigenous people, but actually geared towards. Mak[ing] indigenous cultures disappear (8); resulted in many different forms of stress suffered by indigenous people. Contemporary indigenous writers manipulate the english language and its literary traditions to narrate indigenous experiences under colonialism in an effort to heal themselves and their audiences from the colonial trauma (12: through both reading and writing: Heal indigenous people from postcolonial traumatic stress response (15): literature provides mirror, community and vocabulary for working through trauma.