Room Number: TSR1-075
Join the Meeting: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/99706463198?pwd=MkliRmZEcmlXMEZxMG14TjdLNkpKUT09
Chair: Muchativugwa Liberty Hove (North-West U)
Speakers:
Carolina Buffoli (U Edinburgh), “Colonial palimpsests: transgenerational trauma and the problematization of the Gothic in contemporary indigenous writing in Canada and New Zealand”
Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle U), “Ruptured and Renewed Commons in Patricia Grace’s Potiki”
Francesca Mussi (U Northumbria), “Healing the ruptures and restoring relations in Carole Rose Goldeneagle Daniels’s Bearskin Diary“
Paper Summaries:
Carolina Buffoli (U Edinburgh), “Colonial palimpsests: transgenerational trauma and the problematization of the Gothic in contemporary indigenous writing in Canada and New Zealand”
This paper explores the transnational comparison of two contemporary novels by indigenous writers engaging with the Gothic genre in an act of counter-colonial and counter-Eurocentric resistance to address the disruptive histories and aftermaths of imperialism and colonial contact.
Christine Lorre-Johnston (Sorbonne Nouvelle U), “Ruptured and Renewed Commons in Patricia Grace’s Potiki”
Relying on Elinor Ostrom’s definition of commons, this paper proposes a reading of Patricia Grace’s Potiki (1986) as a novel that marks a rupture followed by a renewal of what commons means to a Māori community. In times of global ecological concern, the novel resonates well beyond its New Zealand context.
Francesca Mussi (U Northumbria), “Healing the ruptures and restoring relations in Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song”
Drawing on analysis of Carol Rose Goldeneagle Daniels’s 2015 novel Bearskin Diary, this paper argues that storytelling, ceremony, and traditional ways play a crucial role in healing the ruptures to Indigenous lifeways caused by settler-colonial policies, and in restoring healthy relations between Indigenous bodies, minds, and spirits and the more-than-human world.