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- Title
Listening to Writing: Performativity in Strategies Developed by Learning from Indigenous Yukon Discourse, 1968-84.
- Authors
HUNTER, LYNETTE
- Abstract
The central two stories about anthropologist Julie Cruikshank and community-worker-turnedconsultant John Hoyt tell of culturally "Western" people, who are chosen by Native peoples in the Yukon Territory to work on the writing of political stories during the period from 1968 to 1984. This historical period, coming only eight years after Native peoples had been declared " persons," required a rethinking of the communicative and performative strategies previously assumed by non-Native interlocutors. Each writer had to learn to listen differently, generating in their writing not the concepts of the other at the heart of assumptive logics in the anthropological and Western political discourse of the time, but alterior and not-said values that live alongside what Peter Kulchyski calls a "certain kind of writing that is the state." Each writer does this differently, addressing in Cruikshank's case the collaborative work of alongside values emerging into socio-cultural discourse, and in Hoyt's case the collaborative work of setting alongside values in a context that claims value within state politics. Learning about listening to alterior lives is a key skill that has to be relearned by each generation not as predictive strategies but as ways of becoming and ways of knowing.
- Subjects
YUKON; CRUIKSHANK, Julie; HOYT, John; FIRST Nations of Canada; FIRST Nations in literature; AUTHORSHIP collaboration; RACE relations in Canada; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/jcs.2016.50.1.36