From Publisher "In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990. In When the Other is Me, LaRocque brings a metacritical approach to Native writing, situating it as resistance literature within and outside the postcolonial intellectual context. She outlines the overwhelming evidence of dehumanization in Canadian historical and
literary writing, its effects on both popular culture and Canadian
intellectual development, and Native and non-Native intellectual
responses to it in light of the interlayered mix of romanticism,
exaggeration of Native difference, and the continuing problem of
internalization that challenges our understanding of the
colonizer/colonized relationship."
