Nighttime Invasions, Colonial Dispossession, and Indigenous Resilience in Richard Wagamese’s <i>Indian Horse</i>
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Abstract This essay demonstrates how Richard Wagamese employs oral storytelling techniques to make the complex idea of Indigenous dispossession sensually and intellectually accessible readers his novel, Indian Horse . The Wabseemoong First Nation writer depicts devastating effects white entitlement when rendering character Saul Horse’s experiences in Canada’s residential schools effect those had on subsequent life. Using narrative analysis, it will be shown loses ability perceive places as being alive resonant, is thereby dispossessed an individual, social, spiritual level. Furthermore, Wagamese’s descriptions physical, emotional, sexual abuse children draw attention harrowing histories schools, thus laying bare necropolitical potential settler-colonial dispossession. links recent arguments brought forward studies. It aims demonstrate that settler colonial states part modernity, its overarching political economy, capitalism. i
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عنوان ژورنال: American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1841-964X', '1841-1487']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2022-0004