{"product_id":"stories-of-oka-isabelle-st-amand-9780887552366","title":"Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis--or the Kanehsatake Resistance--exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society had imagined was on the verge of disappearance. The 78-day standoff also reactivated a long history of Indigenous people's resistance to colonial policies aimed at assimilation and land appropriation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe land dispute at the core of this conflict raises obvious political and judicial issues, but it is also part of a wider context that incites us to fully consider the ways in which histories are performed, called upon, staged, told, imagined, and interpreted. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature\u003c\/em\u003e examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. This new English edition of St-Amand's interdisciplinary, intercultural, and multi-perspective work offers a framework for thinking through the relationships that both unite and oppose settler societies and Indigenous peoples in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabelle St Amand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0887552366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887552366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Isabelle St Amand","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47757853393151,"sku":"9780887552366","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_539d19e7-4362-4c89-a88a-b35ebb5b66a8.jpg?v=1765510778","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stories-of-oka-isabelle-st-amand-9780887552366","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}