Indigenous Defamiliarizations

• Published in: Canadian literature no. 200; pp. 189 - 377
• Main Author: Dobson, Kit
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Vancouver The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature 22.03.2009; Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia
• Subjects: Human Genome Project; Laurier, Wilfrid (1841-1919); Native culture; Native peoples; Peltier, Leonard; Prisons; Reading; Semiotics; Studies; Taxidermy; Women; Writing

Wakeham's analysis invigorates discussions of this notion by showing ways in which the semiotic proximity of taxidermy and the Native body in the colonial imaginary "preserve" and thus forestall the disappearance of pre-contact ways of life merely in order to invoke tbeir continual di...