Promotional Information

"A crucial resource for classrooms, researchers, and anyone wanting to understand the dynamics of Canada's culture of redress, Reconciling Canada offers important resources for setting Canada's projects of apology and reconciliation in context. The editors have collected in one volume timely insights from some of Canada's leading scholars on the possibilities and problems in Canada's many and manifold projects of reconciliation. The volume also reproduces historical documents on key apologies to remind readers of the long and diverse history of apology in Canada." -- Daniel Coleman, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

Table of Contents

Introduction

Jennifer Henderson (Carleton University) and Pauline Wakeham (University of Western Ontario)

I. Settler Culture and the Terrain of Reconciliation

Matt James (University of Victoria), “Neoliberal Heritage Redress”

Eva Mackey (Carleton University), “The Apologizer’s Apology”

Jennifer Henderson, “The Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress”

II. Citizenship, Nationhood, Law

Lily Cho (University of Western Ontario), “Redress Revisited: Citizenship and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax”

Dale Turner (Dartmouth College), “On the Idea of Reconciliation in Contemporary Aboriginal Politics”

James (Sa’ke’j) Youngblood Henderson (University of Saskatchewan), “Incomprehensible Canada”

III. Testimony and Truth-Telling

Roger Simon, “Worrying Together: The Problematics of Listening and the Educative Responsibilities of Canada’s TRC”

Julia Emberley (University of Western Ontario), “Epistemic Heterogeneity: Indigenous Storytelling, Testimonial Practices and the Question of Violence in Indian Residential Schools”

Dian Million (University of Washington), “Trauma, Power, and the Therapeutic: Speaking Psychotherapeutic Narratives in an Era of Indigenous Human Rights”

IV. Grieving and Grievance, Mourning and Memory

Amber Dean (McMaster University), “Public Mourning and the Culture of Redress: Mayerthorpe, Air India, and Murdered or Missing Aboriginal Women”

Lindy Ledohowski (Carleton University), “The compulsion to tell falls on the next generation’: Ukrainian-Canadian Literature in English and Victims of the Past”

V. Performing Redress

Len Findlay (University of Saskatchewan), “Redress Rehearsals: Legal Warrior, COSMOSQUAW, and the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards”

Anna Carastathis, “The Non-Performativity of Reconciliation: The Case of ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ in Quebec”

VI. Redress and Transnationalism: Thinking Apology Beyond the Nation

Roy Miki (Simon Fraser University), “Rewiring Critical Affects: Reading ‘Asian Canadian’ in the Transnational Sites of Kerri Sakamoto’s One Hundred Million Hearts”

Pauline Wakeham, “From Rendition to Redress: Maher Arar, Apology, and Exceptionality”

Appendices

A. Aboriginal Peoples and Residential Schools

B. Acadian Deportations

C. Black Loyalist and Africville Injustices

D. Chinese Canadian Immigration Restrictions

E. Indian passengers on the Komagata Maru

F. WWI Internments

G. WWII Internments

H. Jewish Refugees on the SS St. Louis

I. Doukhobor Residential Schools

About the Author

Jennifer Henderson is an associate professor in the Departments of English and Sociology/Anthropology and the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Pauline Wakeham is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews

‘Reconciling Canada is the first text to comprehensively unpack Canada’s unique position in history, marking it as an important contribution to both Canadian and reconciliation studies.’
*Canadian Literature Spring 2014*

“This serious engagement with the challenges posed by the culture of redress in Canada is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand our history and for imagining alternative futures.… A milestone in Canadian interdisciplinary scholarship, this book repays the effort it demands. If Northrop Frye was correct in diagnosing the central Canadian question as “where is here?” then this book shows “here” to be a complex place in which healing and hope are yet to be achieved but can be imagined differently. “
*University Affairs, December 3, 2014.*

‘”A historicization of redress” is a stated objective of the collection, and the editors have marshalled expertise from across the disciplines to achieve this end.’
*University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015*