Description
Book SynopsisReveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native American women. This collection examines the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms.
Trade ReviewIt seems to me that being an American Indian woman makes one a feminist. That is, if a commitment to strength, both of body and spirit, to self-reliance, and to a sense of identity outside the male world (albeit always within one's Indian community) makes one a feminist—and I think it does—then Indian woman and feminist are synonyms. Reading Native American Women is a collection that powerfully makes my point. Kudos to Inés Hernández-Avila and the women who speak with as strong a voice as ever. -- Paula Gunn Allen, Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Pocahontas, Medicine Woman, Spy, Interpreter, Diplomat
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 on the 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. -- Michelene E. Pesantubbee, University of Iowa
This is an excellent anthology: it is well conceived, imaginatively combines creative work with critical analysis, and contains a number of powerful Native women's voices. While there are many anthologies devoted to the creative work of American Indian women, there are few that feature critical work. The individual essays are all very strong, offering a wide range of perspectives, issues and cultural traditions. Reading Native American Women will fill a long-standing gap, and its critical essays as well as its poetry, memoir and fiction will provide an invaluable resource for those seeking responsible and insightful knowledge about Native women. -- Laura Donaldson, Cornell University
Table of Contents1 "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
