Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories Native American Women's Autobiography / Annette Angela Portillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portillo, Annette Angela, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Indians of North America--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.

Summary:

"In Sovereign Stories, Annette Angela Portillo examines Native American women's autobiographical discourses and multiple-voiced life stories that resist generic conventional notions of first-person narrative. She argues that these 'sovereign stories' and 'blood memories' not only reveal the multilayered histories and identities shared by each author, but demonstrate how their narratives are grounded in ancestral memory and land. These autobiographies recall settler-colonialism, deterritorialization, and genocide as the writers and activist-scholars reclaim their voices across cultural, national, and digital boundaries. Portillo provides close readings of memoirs, life stories, oral histories, blogs, social media sites, and experimental multigenre narratives including those by Delfina Cuero, Ruby Modesto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Pretty-Shield, Zitkala-Sa, and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Indigenous Epistemologies: Decolonizing Native American Women's Sovereign Stories And The Embodiment Of Shared Knowledges

Delfina Cuero And Anticolonial Native American Historiography: Remapping Kumeyaay Presence Through Storytelling And Place Naming

The Land And The People Are Inseparable : Writing The Oral And Visual In Leslie Marmon Silko's Memoirs Sacred Water And Turquoise Ledge

The Power Of Story And Resistance: Pretty-shield, Zitkala-sa, And Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's As-told-to And Self-written Autobiographies

Indigenizing The Internet Through Cyberactivism, Social Media, And Communo-blographies: The Zapatistas, Idle No More, And Activist-bloggers

Not For Innocent Ears: Decolonial Pedagogies And Indigenous-centered Storytelling Practices In The Classroom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826359162

0826359167

OCLC:

1012939494