"And So Dies My Clan": Reading Indigenous Literature and Politics Through Trauma Time ...
The interdisciplinary study of indigenous literature and politics is fertile ground for inquiry into understanding how each discipline can inform the work of researchers, practitioners, and students within the humanities and social sciences. Yeremei Aipin’s "And So Dies My Clan" (2...
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| Language: | English |
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Humanities Commons
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/m6nd4p https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:12683/ |
| Summary: | The interdisciplinary study of indigenous literature and politics is fertile ground for inquiry into understanding how each discipline can inform the work of researchers, practitioners, and students within the humanities and social sciences. Yeremei Aipin’s "And So Dies My Clan" (2010) offers an opportunity to explore the intersection of pluralistic approaches to trauma theory as a way of engaging Siberian indigenous literature. Relying on Jenny Edkins’ (2014) frame of “trauma time” and her four-fold conceptualization of “missing persons” during traumatic experiences, I suggest that Aipin’s essay offers the reader an opportunity to locate specific instances of disruptive events experienced by both individuals and groups in the story with the sociopolitical record of Khanty people's interactions with corporate and state actors in the 20th and 21st century. Characters in Aipin’s essay experience the trauma of property theft, economic disenfranchisement, are subject to asymmetric ... |
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