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Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and Métis âcimisowina

Title

Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and Métis âcimisowina / Deanna Reder.

Author

Reder, Deanna, 1963-

Publication

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description

xii, 179 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--

Series Statement

Indigenous studies series

Uniform Title

Indigenous studies series

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

Issued also in electronic formats.

ISBN

9781771125543
1771125543

OCLC

on1241443510
SCSB-14181152

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library