Detailed Information on Publication Record
2007
„Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus“
HORÁKOVÁ, MartinaBasic 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”
Authors
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.