A Magnificent Work

Daniel Oudshoorn

A Magnificent Work
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Resource Publications (CA)
Country
United States
Published
22 June 2020
Pages
198
ISBN
9781725266124

A Magnificent Work

Daniel Oudshoorn

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A Magnificent Work is an autobiographical exploration of the interconnectedness of toxic masculinity, White supremacy, and settler colonialism within the context of Canadian-occupied territories. It is a work of
documentary fiction
(to use the term of W. G. Sebald) or
autotheory
(as proposed by Maggie Nelson). Oudshoorn moves from relating his personal experiences as both a son and a father to exploring the ways in which similar events have played out on a much larger scale within the Canadian occupation. Special attention is given to the history of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s oldest and longest-running
Indian Residential School.
Thus, although an Anglican bishop once described the Mohawk Institute as
a magnificent work,
Oudshoorn argues that the truly magnificent work that awaits people like him–notably, cishet male settlers of Christian and European descent–is the process of embodying a gentle masculinity, recovering a sense of one’s proper place of connectedness within a network of relationships with varying degrees of responsibility and accountability, and striving towards decolonization.

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