Ce que les littératures autochtones ont à voir avec la décolonisation
Extraits tirés de A Really Good Brown Girl (1996) et de The Pemmican Eaters (2015) de Marilyn Dumont
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https://doi.org/10.29173/af29499Mots-clés :
Marilyn Dumont, langue et culture impérialiste, résurgence indigène et décolonisation, postcolonialisme, colonisation de peuplementRésumé
Cet article explore une sélection de poèmes de A Really Good Brown Girl et The Pemmican Eaters de Dumont en tant qu’œuvres critiques qui abordent deux aspects des luttes de décolonisation autochtones. Alors que les poèmes de A Really Good Brown Girl adoptent le langage/poétique de la résistance pour critiquer la discrimination culturelle et linguistique, The Pemmican se concentre sur la récupération et la régénération de l’identité autochtone de l’auteur. L’une des stratégies communes aux poèmes est le repositionnement d’anciens termes péjoratifs pour récupérer les significations et les histoires autochtones affirmatives de ces mots. En représentant ces mots et ces souvenirs à travers une perspective métisse crie, Dumont renverse les mythes coloniaux populaires et montre au colonisateur la vérité sur la colonisation par les colons. Les poèmes de Dumont offrent une critique forte et directe de la colonisation ainsi que des tentatives du colonisateur de contrôler les corps et les visions du monde autochtones. Et ce faisant, ils démontrent les liens entre l’activisme littéraire et les efforts continus des Autochtones vers la souveraineté.
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