Decolonial Gestures in Canada’s Settler State: Contemporary Indigenous Writers Jordan Abel and Leanne Simpson

This paper discusses the ways recent texts by two Indigenous Canadian writers, Jordan Abel’s collection of conceptual poetry Un/Inhabited and Leanne Simpson’s short stories and poems Islands of Decolonial Love, engage in what Walter Mignolo terms ‘decolonial gestures’ to expose the workings of conte...

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Main Author: Kristina Aurylaite
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Latvia Press 2017-07-01
Series:Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
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Online Access:https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/359