Against / Alongside / Outside Colonial Spatialities: “Terristory” in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020)

The title of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s novel is programmatic in so far as it introduces the text as a decolonizing project offering a “cure” to settler colonial conception of the land. Drawing on Métis scholar Warren Cariou’s conceptualization of “terristory,” the...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla,
Autor principal: Letessier, Anne-Sophie
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2025
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Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:The title of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s novel is programmatic in so far as it introduces the text as a decolonizing project offering a “cure” to settler colonial conception of the land. Drawing on Métis scholar Warren Cariou’s conceptualization of “terristory,” the present paper proposes to discuss the ways in which Noopiming contends with, disrupts and ultimately evades the enclosures and borders of colonial spatialities.