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