Rather, the novel invites the reader to reflect on the complexities of ‘judging with care,’ a term Selma Sevenhuijsen uses to describe a situated form of postmodern feminist ethics in her study Citizenship and the Ethics of Care. Eden Robinson refuses to enlist her protagonist as a player in the politicized ‘games’ of cultural authenticity, postcolonial resistance, or cultural hybridity. Yet Monkey Beach alerts the attentive reader against the pitfalls of approaching difference through inherited interpretative templates. How easy is it for Western readers of contemporary Native literature to suspend their goal-oriented consciousness when approaching Native ‘otherness’? Existing critical interpretations of Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach attest to the ways in which cultural difference elicits politicized reading practices and romanticizing hermeneutical gestures.
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