Inscribing Difference and Resistance : Indigenous Women's Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. Inscribing Difference and Resistance : Indigenous Women's Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America. 1st ed. Brno: Masaryk University, 2017, 210 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty 463. ISBN 978-80-210-8531-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8531-2017.

Basic information

• Original name: Inscribing Difference and Resistance : Indigenous Women's Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America
• Authors: HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 1. vyd. Brno, 210 pp. Spisy Filozofické fakulty 463, 2017.
• Publisher: Masaryk University

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/17:00096713
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-80-210-8531-2
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-8531-2017
• UT WoS: 000780195900011
• Keywords in English: Indigenous women's personal non-fiction; Indigenous women's life writing; Australia; Canada; USA; difference; resistance
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America 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.

Abstract (in Czech)

Kniha Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America zkoumá, jak literárně-esejistická tvorba domorodých obyvatelek v USA, Kanadě a Austrálii, publikovaná v 90. letech 20. století, přispěla k formování teoretických východisek tzv. Indigenous feminism (indigenní či domorodý feminismus) a zároveň přispěla k přepsání dominantní historiografie v kontextu těchto osadnických kolonií. Rozbor textů Paully Gunn Allen a Anny Lee Walters z USA, Lee Maracle a Shirley Sterling z Kanady a Jackie Huggins a Doris Pilkington Garimara z Austrálie ukazuje, jak tyto autorky využívají hybridní, multi-žánrový styl, kombinující literární kritiku, historiografii, auto/biografické psaní a fikčně laděné příběhy, k literárnímu vyjádření své odlišné kulturní identity, transgeneračního traumatu z kolonizace a resistence vůči násilné asimilaci.

Links

• ROZV/20/FF/KAA/2015, interní kód MU: Name: Podpora internacionalizace publikační činnosti 2015 - Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky

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