Reading Native American Women

Critical/Creative Representations

Edited by Inés Hernández-Avila

Not available to order

Publication date:

14 July 2005

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

ISBN-13: 9780759114753

This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, community, sovereignty, culture, and representation. This engaging volume crystallizes the myriad realities that inform the authors' intellectual work, and clarifies the sources of inspiration for their roles as individuals and indigenous intellectuals, reaffirming their paramount commitment to their communities and Nations. It will be of great value to Native writers as well as instructors and students in Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, literature, and writing and composition.

1 Remember 2 Introduction 3
Chapter 1: Telling Stories to the Seventh Generation: Resisting the Assimilationist Narrative of Stiya 5
Chapter 2: Blood, Rebellion, and Motherhood in the Political Imagination of Indigenous People 5
Chapter 3: Personalizing Methodology: Narratives of Imprisoned Native Women 6
Chapter 4: Rape and the War Against Native Women 7
Chapter 5: The Big Pipe Case 8
Chapter 6: Toward a Decolonization of the Mind and Text: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony 9
Chapter 7: Native InFormation 10
Chapter 8: Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant: Living on Occupied Land 11
Chapter 9: The Storyteller's Escape: Sovereignty and Worldview 13
Chapter 10: Relocations Upon Relocations: Home, Language, and Native Women Writing 14
Chapter 11: The Trick Is Going Home: Secular Spiritualism in Native American Women's Literature 15
Chapter 12: Dildos, Hummingbirds and Driving Her Crazy: Searching for American Indian Women's Love Poetry and Erotica 15
Chapter 13: Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking About Their Religious and Political Perspectives 16
Chapter 14: Out of Bounds: Indigenous Knowing and the Study of Religion 17 Credits 18 About the Authors

Inés Hernández-Avila brings together an amazing group of Native women intellectuals who give voice to the varied expressions of Native women's lives. These scholars, writers, and artists offer personal histories, deep reflection, and scholarly research onthe political struggles of Native women throughout the Americas. The juxtaposition of different forms of expression provides an embodied, intellectual experience that is both painful and inspirational....