Testimonials

Abstract

Warrior Women: Remaking Post-Secondary Places through Relational Narrative Inquiry is a book unlike any other I have read. The book draws from the voices of 10 women with diverse narrative histories who come to walk alongside one another as warriors “in a more than 500 year struggle for equity and justice for Aboriginal people in Canada” (Young et al., 2012). The book is alive and moving, making tangible the oral storytelling devices “rhythm, repetition and ritual” of which Sewall (1996) speaks, and which resound to create an embodied sense of how intergenerational narratives shape both backward and forward looking stories. The stories compel and as the authors call us to hear the beating of the drum, they likewise urgently invite us to see our own place in joining hands, in walking alongside, and in co-composing ways forward into the world together. Such new stories, stories such as theirs, give we readers hope that new possible intergenerational narrative reverberations can be co-composed.”

Citation

(2012), "Testimonials", Isabelle Young, M., Joe, L., Lamoureux, J., Marshall, L., Dorothy Moore, S., Orr, J.-L., Mary Parisian, B., Paul, K., Paynter, F. and Huber, J. (Ed.) Warrior Women: Remaking Postsecondary Places through Relational Narrative Inquiry (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 17), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. vii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3687(2012)0000017003