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The repressed returns; the indigenous returns: “Something in Between”: David Randall Gaertner, ‘Monkey Beach and the Haisla Return of the Return of the Repressed’, Canadian Literature, 225, 2016

03May16

Abstract: The return of the repressed is a pervasive trope in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach and it has been well theorized in the criticism surrounding the novel—from a Freudian perspective. However, in order to fully understand the aesthetics and politics of this important text more work is needed to develop the ways in which readers can engage with repression and its return from an Indigenous—and more specifically—Haisla, point of view. Via close reading and historical analysis, this essay locates the return of the repressed in relation to settler colonialism and traditional Haisla storytelling and fundamentally reframes arguments concerning psychoanalytic critique and Indigenous literature.


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