Christopher Bracken
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Bracken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracken |
| SIGNATURE | BRACKEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Manic History
On May 27, 2021, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported the discovery of 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Their first response was mourning for the loss of young lives; their second response was melancholia for the loss of the children's names. David Eng and David Kazanjian advocate a “counterintuitive” interpretation of melancholia as “creative,” redefining it as the …
The deaths of Moses
Derrida insists that any effort to think theological-political power "in its possibility" must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, "an Indian," executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul's execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom's sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American aut…
Reconciliation Romance
Research Article| June 01 2015 Reconciliation Romance: A Study in Juridical Theology Christopher Bracken Christopher Bracken Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.24.1.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Bracken; Reconciliation Romance: A Study in Juridical Theology. Qui Parle 1 June 2…
In This Separation
The language of things
The Potlatch Papers
The Potlatch Papers
Journal Article The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. By Christopher Bracken. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-06986-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-06987-7.) Get access Leland Donald Leland Donald University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 260–261, https:/…
The Potlatch Papers
Coercive Spaces and Spatial Coercions
The deaths of Moses
Derrida insists that any effort to think theological-political power "in its possibility" must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, "an Indian," executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul's execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom's sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American aut…
The Potlatch Papers
The Potlatch Papers
Coercive Spaces and Spatial Coercions
The Potlatch Papers
The Potlatch Papers
Journal Article The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. By Christopher Bracken. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-06986-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-226-06987-7.) Get access Leland Donald Leland Donald University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 260–261, https:/…
The Potlatch Papers
The language of things
In This Separation
Reconciliation Romance
Research Article| June 01 2015 Reconciliation Romance: A Study in Juridical Theology Christopher Bracken Christopher Bracken Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.24.1.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher Bracken; Reconciliation Romance: A Study in Juridical Theology. Qui Parle 1 June 2…
The deaths of Moses
Derrida insists that any effort to think theological-political power "in its possibility" must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, "an Indian," executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul's execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom's sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American aut…
Manic History
On May 27, 2021, the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported the discovery of 215 unmarked graves on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Their first response was mourning for the loss of young lives; their second response was melancholia for the loss of the children's names. David Eng and David Kazanjian advocate a “counterintuitive” interpretation of melancholia as “creative,” redefining it as the …
Sociology (6 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)