Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children

Sabrina Völz

Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

Standard

Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children. / Völz, Sabrina.
In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. ed. / Stefan L. Brandt. Peter Lang Verlag, 2017. p. 147-159 (Canadiana ; Vol. 20).

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Völz, S 2017, Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children. in SL Brandt (ed.), In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Canadiana , vol. 20, Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 147-159, In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture, Graz, Austria, 02.06.16. <https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783631735756/chapter09.xhtml>

APA

Völz, S. (2017). Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children. In S. L. Brandt (Ed.), In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture (pp. 147-159). (Canadiana ; Vol. 20). Peter Lang Verlag. https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783631735756/chapter09.xhtml

Vancouver

Völz S. Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children. In Brandt SL, editor, In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Peter Lang Verlag. 2017. p. 147-159. (Canadiana ).

Bibtex

@inbook{dbcbf63d878d472f8e17cc5bf56e9786,

title = "Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren{\textquoteright}s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk{\textquoteright}s We Were Children",

abstract = "While fictional and non-fictional writing on Indian Residential Schools (IRS) has become an important part of the academic landscape well beyond the confines of Canada, documentary filmmaking on IRS has not yet been met with the same level of scholarly attention. This essay on Nadia McLaren{\textquoteright}s Muffins for Granny: Stories from Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System and Tim Wolochatiuk{\textquoteright}s We Were Children seeks to reduce this divide. As a powerful form of truth telling, these documentaries testify to the power of oral history on par with indigenous storytelling practices and oral traditions, but they take highly different approaches to the sharing of the testimony of residential school survivors and their traumatic memories. McLaren artfully fuses the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking with the balance and harmony of an Aboriginal worldview. Wolochatiuk takes a more controversial approach, stretching the borders between fact and fiction with his highly affective brand of performative documentary filmmaking.",

keywords = "North American Studies, Documentary, Native Identity, Residential Schools, Canada, North American Studies, Residential Schools, Documentary, Native Identity, Gender and Diversity, Identit{\"a}t, Indigene Studien",

author = "Sabrina V{\"o}lz",

year = "2017",

month = dec,

day = "1",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-3-631-73569-5",

series = "Canadiana ",

publisher = "Peter Lang Verlag",

pages = "147--159",

editor = "Brandt, {Stefan L.}",

booktitle = "In-Between",

address = "Germany",

note = "In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture ; Conference date: 02-06-2016 Through 04-06-2016",

}

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - Documenting Oral History and Lessons in Truth Telling in in Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children

AU - Völz, Sabrina

PY - 2017/12/1

Y1 - 2017/12/1

N2 - While fictional and non-fictional writing on Indian Residential Schools (IRS) has become an important part of the academic landscape well beyond the confines of Canada, documentary filmmaking on IRS has not yet been met with the same level of scholarly attention. This essay on Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny: Stories from Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children seeks to reduce this divide. As a powerful form of truth telling, these documentaries testify to the power of oral history on par with indigenous storytelling practices and oral traditions, but they take highly different approaches to the sharing of the testimony of residential school survivors and their traumatic memories. McLaren artfully fuses the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking with the balance and harmony of an Aboriginal worldview. Wolochatiuk takes a more controversial approach, stretching the borders between fact and fiction with his highly affective brand of performative documentary filmmaking.

AB - While fictional and non-fictional writing on Indian Residential Schools (IRS) has become an important part of the academic landscape well beyond the confines of Canada, documentary filmmaking on IRS has not yet been met with the same level of scholarly attention. This essay on Nadia McLaren’s Muffins for Granny: Stories from Survivors of the Canadian Residential School System and Tim Wolochatiuk’s We Were Children seeks to reduce this divide. As a powerful form of truth telling, these documentaries testify to the power of oral history on par with indigenous storytelling practices and oral traditions, but they take highly different approaches to the sharing of the testimony of residential school survivors and their traumatic memories. McLaren artfully fuses the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking with the balance and harmony of an Aboriginal worldview. Wolochatiuk takes a more controversial approach, stretching the borders between fact and fiction with his highly affective brand of performative documentary filmmaking.

KW - North American Studies

KW - Documentary

KW - Native Identity

KW - Residential Schools

KW - Canada

KW - North American Studies

KW - Residential Schools

KW - Documentary

KW - Native Identity

KW - Gender and Diversity

KW - Identität

KW - Indigene Studien

UR - https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/80460

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-631-73569-5

T3 - Canadiana

SP - 147

EP - 159

BT - In-Between

A2 - Brandt, Stefan L.

PB - Peter Lang Verlag

T2 - In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture

Y2 - 2 June 2016 through 4 June 2016

ER -

Other publications by the same author(s)

Exploring Difficult History Lessons, Identity Construction, the Artistic Expansion of Sitcom Storytelling Tools in the Black-ish Episode, "Juneteenth"

Völz, S., 2025, Teaching Popular Culture in the Humanities Classroom. Archiopoli, A., Hampsten, K. & Fish Hatfield, E. (eds.). Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 162-175 14 p. (Education and Popular Culture).

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review

Exposing Sexual Abuse among the Amish and Seeking Social Change: Misty Griffin’s Tears of the Silenced

Völz, S., 2025, Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas. Raussert, W. & Teixeira, S. R. (eds.). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, p. 183-200 18 p. (American Frictions; vol. 11).

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review

The Necessity and Challenges of Researching Sexual Abuse in Amish Communities

Völz, S., 2024, In: Journal of Mennonite Studies. 42, p. 193-219 27 p.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

The 'Games' People Play: The Dangers of Holocaust Simulations and Thought Experiments in Nathan Englander’s and Ellen Umansky’s Short Stories and Beyond

Völz, S., 29.12.2021, In: Journal of the Austrian Association for America Studies. 3, 1, p. 159-178 20 p.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

Völz, S., 19.01.2022, Handbook of the American Short Story. Redling, E. & Scheiding, O. (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 425-443 19 p. (Handbooks of English and American studies; vol. 15).

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review