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Emma LaRocque

 

 

 

 

Title of Presentation: “When the Other is Me in the Academy: Deconstructing the Master Narrative.”

 

 

Biography:


Dr. LaRocque is a scholar, writer, poet, and a professor in the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. She holds a BA in Communications and English from Goshen College, an MA in Peace Studies from AMBS; an MA in History from U of Manitoba and a PhD in Interdisciplinary History, English and Women’s Studies from Manitoba. Dr. LaRocque is a co-founder and Executive member of Manitoba Studies in Native History. She is a 2005 recipient of an Aboriginal Achievement Award.

Dr. LaRocque specializes in colonization and its impact on Native/White relations, particularly in the areas of cultural productions and representation. Her current research projects focuses on the development of an Aboriginal literary theory and negotiating indigeneity and post-coloniality. She continues to research colonial interference and Aboriginal resistance strategies in the areas of literature, historiography, representation, identity, gender roles, industrial encroachment on Aboriginal (Indian and Métis) lands and resources, and governance. She has written numerous scholarly and popular articles on images of ‘Indians’ in the media and marketplace, Canadian historiography, Native literature, education, racism, and violence against women. Her poetry has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies. Professor LaRocque is the author of Defeathering The Indian (1975); When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 (2010); and co-editor, Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native Literature (2010).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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