英文摘要 |
As the need to define indigeneity seldom came from within the indigenous communities, the lives and narratives of the Métis, who as a unique ethnic group came into being out of the colonial encounter, have been customarily associated with notions of borders, minority and hybridity. This essay focuses on and celebrates ambivalence of enunciation of the Métis subject, taking "métissage" as the cutting edge in Beatrice Culleton’s literary representation to approach the perplexing diversity of the Métis cultural positions. The term "métissage", borrowed from Françoise Lionnet, is treated as a composite, subversive desire for recovery and revival, and a tribal identity significantly defined by the clash of Native and non-Native cultures. The discussion will appropriate "métissage" to pivot upon the polemics of Métis Canadian hybridity, which resists Euroamerican imperial expansion imposed on the Métis communities and accounts for a complex and dynamic interplay of historical, ethnic and geographical space. In "In Search of April Raintree" (1983), the positionality of "métissage", which explores a cross-cultural poetics of hybridity and cultural difference, marks narrative strategies and representations of the communal, historical body of the Métis. |