Memory serves : oratories
A collection of oratories delivered and performed over a twenty-year period concerning Stó:lō history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism, and colonial condition. Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Sto: lo in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Sto: lo history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people.
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- ISBN: 9781926455440
- Physical Description xviii, 267 pages.
- Publisher Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press, [2015]
- Copyright ©2015
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General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Table of Contents
Memory Serves
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Preface | p. xi | |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii | |
Memory Serves | p. 1 | |
Salmon Is the Hub of Salish Memory | p. 51 | |
Who Gets to Draw the Maps: In and out of Place in British Columbia | p. 65 | |
Understanding Raven | p. 85 | |
We share who we are | p. 105 | |
Post-colonial Imagination | p. 107 | |
Sharing Space and Time | p. 115 | |
Indigenous Women and Power | p. 129 | |
Globalization and Indigenous Writing | p. 153 | |
Oratory: Coming to Theory | p. 161 | |
Oral Poetry | p. 169 | |
Peace | p. 175 | |
Mapping Our Way through History: Reflections on Knud Rasmussen's Journals | p. 181 | |
The Lost Days of Columbus | p. 189 | |
Toward a National Literature: "A body of writing" | p. 197 | |
Dancing My Way to Orality | p. 217 | |
Oratory on Oratory | p. 229 | |
Afterword: Different but the Same Smaro Kamboureli | p. 251 | |
Works Consulted | p. 265 |