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Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis Âcimisowina

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis Âcimisowina

Reder, Deanna

Paperback

Series: Indigenous Studies

Literary CriticismIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1771125543
ISBN13: 9781771125543
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing.

Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and Métis, or nêhiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family stories and drawing on original historical research, Reder examines censored and suppressed writing by nêhiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in nêhiyawak ontologies and epistemologies that consider life stories to be an intergenerational conduit to pass on knowledge about a shared world, this study encourages a widespread re-evaluation of past and present engagement with Indigenous storytelling forms across scholarly disciplines

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