Unsettling Appropriations: Writing at the Intersection of Indigenous Decolonization and the Canadian Avant-Garde

Department of American and Canadian Studies

welcomes

Professor Gregory Betts, Brock University, Canada

to deliver a guest lecture entitled

Unsettling Appropriations: Writing at the Intersection of Indigenous Decolonization and the Canadian Avant-Garde

Thursday 5 March
6:00 pm in Law & Social Sciences A4

The avant-garde in Canada is increasingly attuned to the re-emergence of the aboriginal populations in North America and their rising influence in the Canadian quotidian. This paper considers an array of experimental texts and textual practices that engage with the desettling of Canadian colonial practices of First Nations people, and examine how these authors begin decolonization by first implicating themselves as carriers of its ideology and ruinous legacy.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK.