Treaty 6 Deixis
By (Author) Christine Stewart
Talon Books,Canada
Talon Books,Canada
12th March 2019
Canada
General
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples
811.6
Paperback
136
Width 152mm, Height 190mm, Spine 11mm
190g
How might poetic practices undermine racist ideologies and colonialism, engendering ecological attentiveness, and anomalous and compassionate communities Christine Stewarts Treaty 6 Deixis takes up these timely and pressing questions as it investigates what it means to be a non-Indigenous inhabitant of Canadas Treaty 6 territory, in this city, on this land, in this country, on this planet, in a way that acknowledges and honours all my obligations and all my relations, the complex web of connective tissues that keep me here. (Deixis is a word or phrase like this, that, now, then that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking or a writer is writing.)
, Stewarts long-anticipated first solo trade collection, is an exemplary, ethically engaged, and much-needed exploration, and a step towards reconciliation.
Christine Stewart is an Associate Professor in the English and Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta. She studies poetics, and is a founding member of the Writing Revolution in Place Research Collective. Recent publications include Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge in Sustaining the West (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015); On Treaty Six, under the Mill Creek Bridge in Toward. Some. Air. (Banff Centre Press, 2015); Thisfrom Treaty Six in Dusie; and The Odes (Nomados Press, 2016; shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award).