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JOURNAL OF CANADIAN STUDIES-REVUE D ETUDES CANADIENNES
卷 56, 期 1, 页码 175-192出版社
UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC
DOI: 10.3138/jcs-2021-0005
关键词
reconciliation; Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada; white privilege; Chinese Canadian solidarity and activism; reconciliation narratives; allyship
This article examines how four settler narratives position themselves within the reconciliation discourse in response to the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It shows the varying degrees of critical reflection on the settler colonial state and differences in acknowledgement of Indigenous resurgence among these narratives. The article adopts a framework that distinguishes between liberal reconciliation and transformative reconciliation to understand these differences.
This article explores how four settler narratives situate themselves differently within the reconciliation discourse in response to the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. In my reading of Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Spawning Grounds (2016) and Jennifer Manuel's The Heaviness of Things That Float (2016) alongside Doretta Lau's How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (2014) and Amy Fung's Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being (2019), I show how these narratives express different degrees of critical reflection on the settler colonial state and differ in their acknowledgement of Indigenous resurgence. I adopt David B. MacDonald's distinction between liberal reconciliation, which is based on a shared vison of a harmonious future, and transformative reconciliation, which is about fundamentally problematizing the settler state as a colonial creation, a vector of cultural genocide, and one that continues inexorably to suppress Indigenous collective aspirations for self-determination and sovereignty as a critical framework.
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