Inscribing Difference and Resistance
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Inscribing Difference and Resistance

Indigenous Women's Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America

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Inscribing Difference and Resistance

Indigenous Women's Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America

About this book

The monograph examines the ways in which Indigenous women's non-fiction published in the 1990s contributed to theoretical articulations of Indigenous feminism and to a historiographic counter-discourse which has intervened into the dominant narratives of nation-building in settler colonies. Personal non-fiction and life writing by Native American authors Paula Gunn Allen and Anna Lee Walters (USA), by First Nations authors Lee Maracle and Shirley Sterling (Canada), and by Aboriginal authors Jackie Huggins and Doris Pilkington Garimara (Australia) are analyzed in detail to demonstrate how a hybrid writing style, combining scholarly criticism with auto/biography and fictionalized storytelling, is used to inscribe Indigenous women's cultural difference, subjugated knowledges, transgenerational trauma from colonization, and resistance to forced assimilation.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION Narrating Precarious Lives
  4. SECTION I | Inscribing Difference: Indigenous Feminism in Personal Non-fiction by Paula Gunn Allen, Lee Maracle and Jackie Huggins
  5. CHAPTER 1 TALKING BACK, TALKIN’ UP:VOICING INDIGENOUS FEMINISM
  6. CHAPTER 2 RECREATING THE CIRCLE: RECONSTRUCTING INDIGENOUS WOMANHOOD
  7. CHAPTER 3 THRESHOLD WRITING: INTERWEAVINGINDIGENOUS THEORY AND LIFE
  8. SECTION II | Inscribing Resistance: Separation, Assimilation and Trauma in Life Writing by Doris Pilkington, Shirley Sterling and Anna Lee Walters
  9. CHAPTER 4 ALTERNATIVE (HI)STORIES, INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE AND SUBJUGATED KNOWLEDGES
  10. CHAPTER 5 BEARING WITNESS: TRAUMA, TESTIMONY, SCRIPTOTHERAPY
  11. CHAPTER 6 COLLECTIVE SUBJECTS, DIALOGIC SELVES
  12. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
  13. BIBLIOGRAPHY