Empty Spaces

Abstract

This submission is the concluding piece of the author's book, which is a revision of his doctoral thesis. It announces a new generation of Indigenous critics, and it asks for (and brings into being) new directions in Indigenous studies. In the book, the author says the defining fact about his life is that he is an intergenerational survivor of residential schools. It could described as research creation, it could also be described as a bio-text, bio-fiction, creative nonfiction, auto-fiction, or autobiography… For Ariel he has changed the title to Empty Spaces.