Timms, EK orcid.org/0000-0002-0569-2208 (Cover date: 2018) “Our stories could kill you”: Storytelling, healthcare, and the legacy of the “talking cure” in Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes (1998) and Georgia Kaʻapuni McMillen’s School for Hawaiian Girls (2005). Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (5). pp. 627-640. ISSN 1744-9855
Abstract
The notion of indigenous intergenerational historical trauma, developed by Native American engagements with trauma studies, has influenced bicultural or multicultural healthcare systems in New Zealand and Hawaiʻi. Beliefs that indigenous storytelling facilitates healing underpin these discourses, a premise shared by postcolonial trauma scholarship addressing Pacific literatures. This article questions underlying – and romanticized – arguments that Māori and Hawaiian storytelling heals. It analyses how storytelling is re-envisioned as a potential rather than realized space of healing in Patricia Grace’s Baby No-Eyes and Georgia Kaʻapuni McMillen’s School for Hawaiian Girls. It contends that the legacy of the “talking cure” obscures issues of responsible telling and listening, intergenerational respect, and silence in Māori and Hawaiian iterations of health and well-being. By reframing storytelling as a precarious, even dangerous, route to well-being, these readings demonstrate how Pacific literatures might contribute to culturally nuanced appraisals of oral rites and their relationship to colonial trauma.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Postcolonial Writing on 07 Feb 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17449855.2018.1524942. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Trauma; indigenous; health; storytelling; Māori; Hawaiian |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Mar 2019 13:51 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17449855.2018.1524942 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143565 |