Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Decolonial Aesthetics: “Leaks”/Leaks, Storytelling, Community, and Collaboration ...

• Main Author: Lacombe, Michele
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Literature 2017
• Subjects: Cara; Sinclair; anishina*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i230-1.188363; https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/canlit/article/view/188363

In Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories (2013), Jill Doerfler, Niigaan Sinclair and Heidi Stark state that stories are “being used as theoretical frameworks guiding questions” in a number of fields. Anishinaabeg scholars have been “exploring issues and interests of their own communities” in ways that reveal “stories operating as different entryways . . . [and as] centres to Anishinaabeg Studies.” Doerfler et al note that in Leanne Simpson’s contribution to their volume, she approaches aadizookanaag and dibaajimowinan as “two types of stories” that reflect “interrelated forces, echoes, and parts of a greater whole.” Simpson’s poem “leaks” – like Cara Mumford’s short film Leaks – also reflect this approach. The performance of “Leaks” in the film Leaks is consistent with “spontaneous” resurgent eruptions of flash round dances associated with Idle No More; long-standing “grass-roots” forms of cultural, political and spiritual resistance; “traditional,” land-based Indigenous ... : Canadian Literature, No 230-1 (2016): Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Community ...