{"id":460,"date":"2017-02-20T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T00:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/?p=460"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:35:57","slug":"every-day-english-world-day-of-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/2017\/02\/20\/every-day-english-world-day-of-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Day English–World Day of Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michelle LaFlamme contributes our next Every Day English<\/a> blog post to commemorate World Day of Social Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: JFrazier_Photo<\/a> Flickr via Compfight<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n

I teach Canadian literature and specialize in Aboriginal drama.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This means that I am necessarily engaged with postcolonial theory and numerous social justice issues that preoccupy many contemporary writers.\u00a0 One thing I find fascinating is the way in which writers “write back to” key Canadian historical narratives.\u00a0 Often these writers are asking us to reconsider an alternative paradigm or a writer may use historical meta-fiction to call attention to the constructedness of history.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

One of my favourite writers is Jeanette Armstrong<\/a>, an accomplished educator, writer, <\/a>and the founder of the En’owkwin Centre<\/a>, which offers a writing program in Penticton.\u00a0 Armstrong is a fluent speaker of Okanagon and has been a tireless advocate for social justice issues.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

In this poem, Armstrong creates a naive persona witnessing “a mob burst” to suggest an indigenous perspective on first contact and colonization. The poem asks us to re-imagine contact, the fur trade, settlement and industrialization from a perspective that is an alternative to the mainstream historical narrative.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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In this way, Armstrong uses poetry to advocate for social justice for indigenous people. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle LaFlamme contributes our next Every Day English blog post to commemorate World Day of Social Justice. Photo Credit: JFrazier_Photo Flickr via Compfight cc I teach Canadian literature and specialize in Aboriginal drama.\u00a0 This means that I am necessarily engaged with postcolonial theory and numerous social justice issues that preoccupy many contemporary writers.\u00a0 One thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}