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1 1 y separately published work icon Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context Wendy Gay Pearson (editor), Susan Knabe (editor), Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2014 9044419 2014 anthology criticism

'From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity.

'The contributors to Reverse Shots offer a unique scholarly perspective on current work in the world of Indigenous film and media. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Textual Mothers / Maternal Texts : Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures Elizabeth Podnieks (editor), Andrea O'Reilly (editor), Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2010 Z1807227 2010 anthology criticism Comprises four sections: Maternal absence; Maternal ambivalence; Maternal agency; Maternal communication.
1 y separately published work icon Film and Media Studies Series 2008 Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2008- 9044393 2008 series - publisher criticism
1 3 y separately published work icon Unsettling Narratives : Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature Clare Bradford , Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2007 Z1415102 2007 single work criticism

'Children's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government.

Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion - the use of postcolonial theories - relatively new to the field of children's literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures ' (From publisher's catalogue).

Contents: Introduction. Part One: 'When Languages Collide': Resistance and Representation 1. Language, Resistance, and Subjectivity.2. Indigenous Texts and Publishers.3. White Imaginings.4. Telling the Past. Part Two: Place and Postcolonial Significations.5. Space, Time, Nation. 6. Borders, Journeys, and Liminality.7. Politics and Place.8. Allegories of Place and Race.Conclusion

1 1 y separately published work icon Repossessing the World : Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women Helen M. Buss , Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 2002 Z1275846 2002 single work criticism
1 6 y separately published work icon Dissociation and Wholeness in Patrick White's Fiction Laurence Steven , Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 1989 Z339312 1989 single work criticism
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