Indiscipline (eBook)

Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography

Alicia Carroll (Autor)

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2024
220 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7876-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with the Department of the Interior's publication of the "e;Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report."e; In this book, Alicia Carroll tells the history of one form of literary Native resistance to this violence, that of the collaboratively written autobiography. Focusing on work by Hopi boarding school residents, Carroll shows readers that collaborative autobiographical authorship is a practice of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, using a method they dub indiscipline: a strategy of defying, refusing, or purposefully failing to follow mandates to conform to settler colonial sex and gender norms, including heteronormativity, the binary construct of sex and gender, and the idea of personhood itself. Through collaboratively written autobiography, Carroll argues that Native authors not only resisted colonial attempts to use sex and gender to alienate them from their homelands and bodies, they created an important Indigenous literary genre that informs our understanding of Native life and art today.

Autor

Alicia Carroll is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American Indian boarding school system • assimilation era of United States federal Indian policy • as-told-to narrative • Bureau of Indian Affairs • Bureau of Indian Education • collaborative authorship • Decolonization • Don C. Talayesva • ethnographic photography • Foucauldian theories of discipline, biopolitics, and biopower • Gender and Sexuality Studies • Helen Sekaquaptewa • Heteropatriarchy • Hopi tribe • Hotevilla • H. R. Voth • Indigenous feminist theories • indigenous sovereignty • Keams Canyon Indian Boarding School • Leo W. Simmons • literary genre categorization • Louise Udall • Mennonite missionaries • native american autobiography • Native American literary history • Oraibi • Polingaysi Qoyawayma, a.k.a. Elizabeth Q. White • Polyphonic narrative • Sherman Indian Institute • TWINS • United States settler colonialism • Vada F. Carlson
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7876-4 / 1469678764
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7876-4 / 9781469678764