Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories
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Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories

Native American Women's Autobiography

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories

Native American Women's Autobiography

About this book

In Sovereign Stories, Annette Angela Portillo examines Native American women's autobiographical discourses and multiple-voiced life stories that resist generic conventional notions of first-person narrative. She argues that these "sovereign stories" and "blood memories" not only reveal the multilayered histories and identities shared by each author, but demonstrate how their narratives are grounded in ancestral memory and land. These autobiographies recall settler-colonialism, deterritorialization, and genocide as the writers and activist-scholars reclaim their voices across cultural, national, and digital boundaries. Portillo provides close readings of memoirs, life stories, oral histories, blogs, social media sites, and experimental multigenre narratives including those by Delfina Cuero, Ruby Modesto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Pretty-Shield, Zitkala-Sa, and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter One. Indigenous Epistemologies: Decolonizing Native American Womenā€™s Sovereign Stories and the Embodiment of Shared Knowledges
  9. Chapter Two. Delfina Cuero and Anticolonial Native American Historiography: Remapping Kumeyaay Presence through Storytelling and Place Naming
  10. Chapter Three. ā€œThe Land and the People Are Inseperableā€: Writing the Oral and Visual in Leslie Marmon Silkoā€™s Memoirs Sacred Water and Turquoise Ledge
  11. Chapter Four. The Power of Story and Resistance: Pretty-Shield, Zitkala-Sa, and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkinsā€™s As-Told-To and Self-Written Autobiographies
  12. Chapter Five. Indigenizing the Internet through Cyberactivism, Social Media, and Communo-Blographies: The Zapatistas, Idle No More, and Activist-Bloggers
  13. Chapter Six. Not for Innocent Ears: Decolonial Pedagogies and Indigenous-Centered Storytelling Practices in the Classroom
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index