Indigenous place and diaspora space

Of literalism and abstraction

Bibliographic Data

ID18959548
AuthorsDaniel Coleman (0000-0001-6973-9872, McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume6
Issue1
Pages61-76
Publication date2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSettler Colonial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1838-0743 • E-ISSN: 2201-473X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2201473x.2014.1000913
OpenAlexW2071232801
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Indigeneity and diaspora are deeply related but deeply divided. Although they share the hazards of displacement, usually through settler colonial and/or capitalist expropriation of ancestral lands, the differences between their histories of displacement have resulted in very different political and cultural projects. Rather than trying to bridge these differences, this article deploys a kind of strategic binarism by reading the poetry of Syilx author Jeannette Armstrong in contrast with that of Black Atlantic writer Dionne Brand in order to highlight the tensions between Indigenous commitments to literal places as compared to diasporic distrust of nativism and its reputed essentialism. By animating a dialogue between advocates of literal Indigenous place and of abstract diasporic space, this article seeks to open what Cree philosopher Willie Ermine calls an ‘ethical space of engagement’ where Indigenous and diasporic differences can mutually inform one another

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Diaspora · Epistemology · Essentialism · Indigenous · Liminality · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations) · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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