Holding home together: Katherena Vermette’s The Break

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dc.contributor.authorHanson, Aubrey Jean
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-13T15:03:43Z
dc.date.available2024-05-13T15:03:43Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.descriptionThis article was originally published in Canadian Literature, no. 237 (2019), pp. 27-45, https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=237
dc.description.abstractThis article reads Métis writer Katherena Vermette’s 2016 novel The Break in order to examine urban Indigenous women’s resilience in relation to understandings of home. As the women in this text gather around young Emily, who has endured a violent sexual attack, they embody a strength that resides in their kinship as well as in interconnected conceptions of home. This reading is significant given the issue of violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada, as well as the growing numbers of Indigenous people finding home in cities. As a Métis woman, I also read this text through my own experience. Through these analyses, this paper contends that portrayals of strong Indigenous women can help to shift dominant understandings of Indigenous people, making space for Indigenous women’s well-being in urban spaces. This article offers a timely and Métis-focused consideration of Vermette’s novel.
dc.identifier.citationHanson, A. J. (2019). Holding Home Together: Katherena Vermette’s The Break. Canadian Literature, 237, Article 237. https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i237.190308
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14288/cl.v0i237.190308
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/118626
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCanadian Literature
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersion
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
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dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectKatherena Vermette
dc.subjectThe Break
dc.subjectMétis literature
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjecturban Indigenous women
dc.titleHolding home together: Katherena Vermette’s The Break
dc.typeArticle
ucalgary.scholar.levelFaculty
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