What is it about?

This article examines how the works of Quebec Aboriginal women writers and filmmakers address the disappearance (or erasure), through colonial practices, of intimacy and vulnerability, and how these need to be reinscribed into how we relate to and narrate one another.

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Why is it important?

Promoting the literary and artistic works of Indigenous peoples in Quebec (a distinct corpus that remains at the margins due to, not a national boundary, but a linguistic one) is crucial, given the fast pace of development of this field across North America.

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This page is a summary of: Bodies, Sovereignties, and Desire: Aboriginal Women’s Writing of Québec, Quebec Studies, June 2015, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/qs.2015.7.
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