In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhel...

Emma LaRocque was born in 1949 in Lac La Biche into a Cree-speaking Métis family. She grew up in a one-room, kerosene-lit log cabin built by her father. At the age of nine, she fought her parents to attend school, where she encountered English and the colonizer’s harmful stereotypes of Indigenous peoples. Confronting the contradictions of colonialism sparked her journey as a writer and scholar, as she sought to understand the dissonance between her identity and the world around her....

Cette anthologie rassemble des points de vue d'écrivain.e.s et des textes théoriques. À la fois personnels et engagés, ces écrits montrent la richesse et la fécondité de la pensée autochtone. En plus de fournir des clefs pour la lecture et l'enseignement des littératures des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits, ce livre permet de mieux comprendre les enjeux liés à leurs territoires, leurs cultures et leurs imaginaires. Ces voix invitent à penser le monde à partir des histoires qui n...