Indiscipline : reading collaboratively written Native American autobiography / Alicia Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Alicia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talayesva, Don C., 1890-1985. Sun chief.

Talayesva, Don C.

Qoyawayma, Polingaysi. No turning back.

Qoyawayma, Polingaysi.

Sekaquaptewa, Helen, 1898-1991. Me and mine.

Sekaquaptewa, Helen.

Autobiography--Indian authors.

Autobiography.

Boarding school students--United States--Biography.

Boarding school students.

Hopi Indians--Ethnic identity.

Hopi Indians.

Indian students--United States--Biography.

Indian students.

Off-reservation boarding schools--Social aspects--United States.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Hopi Indians--Biography.

Physical Description:

xv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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 'Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.' 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Gender and genre in Native American autobiography

Twins twisted into one: dual selfhood and the sovereign erotic in Don C. Talayesva's Sun chief: the autobiography of a Hopi Indian (1942)

A bond between the Bahana and the Hopi people: bridging selfhood as a third space of erotic sovereignty in Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No turning back: a Hopi woman's struggle to live in two worlds (1964)

I am talking. She is writing. Relational selfhood and autobiographical agency in Me and mine: the life story of Helen Sekaquaptewa (1969)

Reappropriating ethnography: narrating archival photographs with Hopi voices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Carroll, Alicia. Indiscipline.

ISBN:

9781469678740

1469678748

9781469678757

1469678756

OCLC:

1429887452