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„Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Basic information

Original name

„Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“

Name (in English)

“Inscribing Difference: Autobiographical Responses of Australian and North American Indigenous Women to Mainstream Feminism”

Edition

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, Praha, Sociologický ústav AV ČR, 2007, 1213-0028

Other information

Language

Czech

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Indigenous women; life writing; feminism; difference;
Změněno: 13/3/2012 15:18, Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

Abstract

In English

The article focuses on the strategies of inscribing difference within the feminist discourse in the texts of three contemporary Indigenous writers, Jackie Huggins’ Sistergirl (1998), Lee Maracle’s I Am Woman (1996) and Paula Gunn Allen’s The Sacred Hoop (1986). I argue that these texts, by communicating perspectives on Indigenous women’s identities, representations, and their common struggles in the 20th century, help to deconstruct the universalistic and homogeneous category of Woman, developed by the second-wave first-world mainstream feminism. In their engagement in multi-generic, experiential and subjective writing, such representations offer a significant alternative to the mainstream imaginary of female Indigenousness.