Awards

• Joint winner of AUP Book Jacket and Journal Show Selected Entry 2018 (United States)
• Short-listed for Atlantic Book Awards for Scholarly Writing 2018 (Canada)
• Winner of Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction 2017 (Canada)

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Bryant's excavation of US and Canadian exceptionalisms could not be timelier. She shows how Anglo-Atlantic writing has built a 'system of self-protection' that has sought to contain Indigenous geographies and indeed Indigenous agency. At the same time, she shows how First Nations have always effectively written back against this system. This book shines new light on settler colonialism and Indigenous resurgence, historic and contemporary, through sharp analyses of some influential but lesser-discussed writers. It belongs on the shelf of every scholar in Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, American Studies, Atlantic and Maritime Studies, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Geography, and Literary Criticism, for it creates fresh new dialogues among all of these fields and interests. - Siobhan Senier If you are interested in Indigenous affairs, the history of how the eastern tribes came to be in such dire straits today, and how literature has reflected these changes - and even attempts to embrace and effect change for the better - then The Homing Place will certainly appeal to you. - The Miramichi Reader The Homing Place enacts and advocates for a paradigm shift in 'literary relations' in North America, revealing the 'invisible wall ' in colonial perceptions that may at first seem as impermeable as the nation-state borders that divide the continent. Yet just as Indigenous people and homelands have always traversed those borders, so may our readings transcend that wall. Rachel Bryant foregrounds and leads us to acknowledge the active ways our embodied minds evade or engage Indigenous contexts and communities, producing greater awareness of the impacts of our activities as readers and writers, Native people and settlers, those who make policy, and those who are most impacted by it. - - Lisa Brooks

Bryant's excavation of US and Canadian exceptionalisms could not be timelier. She shows how Anglo-Atlantic writing has built a 'system of self-protection' that has sought to contain Indigenous geographies and indeed Indigenous agency. At the same time, she shows how First Nations have always effectively written back against this system. This book shines new light on settler colonialism and Indigenous resurgence, historic and contemporary, through sharp analyses of some influential but lesser-discussed writers. It belongs on the shelf of every scholar in Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, American Studies, Atlantic and Maritime Studies, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Geography, and Literary Criticism, for it creates fresh new dialogues among all of these fields and interests. - Siobhan Senier The Homing Place enacts and advocates for a paradigm shift in 'literary relations' in North America, revealing the 'invisible wall ' in colonial perceptions that may at first seem as impermeable as the nation-state borders that divide the continent. Yet just as Indigenous people and homelands have always traversed those borders, so may our readings transcend that wall. Rachel Bryant foregrounds and leads us to acknowledge the active ways our embodied minds evade or engage Indigenous contexts and communities, producing greater awareness of the impacts of our activities as readers and writers, Native people and settlers, those who make policy, and those who are most impacted by it. - - Lisa Brooks If you are interested in Indigenous affairs, the history of how the eastern tribes came to be in such dire straits today, and how literature has reflected these changes - and even attempts to embrace and effect change for the better - then The Homing Place will certainly appeal to you. - The Miramichi Reader

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Rachel Bryant is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in K'jipuktuk.

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