Issues of Vulnerability and Care in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed
In 2021, Halfbreed (Sudbury, Prise de parole) by Maria Campbell, an essential autobiographical text in Canadian Indigenous literatures, initially published in English in 1973, was released in French translation for the first time. Drawing on non-Indigenous feminist theories of the ethics of care, this article analyzes vulnerability in a subversive way. It makes the hypothesis that paying attention to Métis personal stories allows us to deconstruct hierarchical relationships imposed by colonialism and to understand the role of storytelling in the restitution of Indigenous knowledge.