Telling Harm: Time, Redress, and Canadian Literature
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2021
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Authers, B.
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Henzi, S.
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Source details - Title: On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada, 2021 / Henzi, S. (ed./s), Ch.3, pp.52-66
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Telling Harm: Time, Redress, and Canadian Literature Benjamin Authers “Redress” has become the exemplary means by which claims for breaches of the rights of minority groups by the state are articulated in Canada. In the past three decades, redress processes have seen government apologies and remedies offered for acts including the forced removal and abuse of children under the Indian residential school system, the discriminatory “Head Tax” imposed on Chinese migrants, and the internment of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War. Defined as “[a] discursive formation frequently organized around the pursuit of reparations for specifiable historical injuries and for reconciliation of social divides framed as stemming from those injuries,” redress has been an at-times productive space for the activism of minoritized groups seeking recognition and remedy for particular government acts and policies (Henderson and Wakeham, Reconciling Canada 6)
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