Native American Autobiography Redefined: A Handbook - Softcover

Sellers, Stephanie A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820479446 ISBN 13: 9780820479446

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Autobiographical stories, widely popular since their creation, are still one of the primary ethnographic and historic sources on Native North American individuals. Many books in this genre, including the famous Black Elk Speaks, have been translated into numerous languages. Native American Autobiography Redefined: A Handbook interrogates critical discussions about Native American autobiographies and challenges their often Eurocentric perspectives: it offers a new rubric for studying the genre, dismantles misperceptions about indigenous peoples, and analyzes in detail a non-biased, Native-centered example of writing about Native American autobiography. This book asks readers to move away from the western cultural notion of «autobiography» to a Native American cultural perspective of «communal narrative.» Special emphasis is given to issues of gender bias and to the great disparity between Eastern Woodlands and western culture’s perceptions of women.

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About the Author

The Author: Stephanie A. Sellers, a culturally identified woman of Native ancestry (Eastern Woodlands), received her Ph.D. in Native American studies with an emphasis on women of the Eastern Woodlands from Union Institute & University in Cincinnati. She teaches in the English Department at Gettysburg College and has published numerous scholarly articles, fiction, and poetry. Her area of research also includes Native American women’s studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820479446
• ISBN 13: 9780820479446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128