Reading Native American Women Critical/Creative Representations

by Hernández-Avila, Inés; Barker, Joanne; Bird, Gloria; Bomberry, Victoria; Churchill, Mary C.; Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth; Dunn, Carolyn; Gómez, Reid; Gould, Janice; Harjo, Joy; Miranda, Deborah A.; Ross, Luana; Smith, Andrea; Talamantez, Inés; Teaiwa, Teresia; T

• ISBN13: 9780759103719
• ISBN10: 0759103712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-14
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native American women today. The authors examine 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. This book will be of great value to researchers of Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and writing and composition. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
"Remember" by Joy Harjo	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
CHAPTER 1 Telling Stories to the Seventh Generation: Resisting the Assimilationist Narrative of Stiya
JANICE GOULD	9	(12)
CHAPTER 2 Blood, Rebellion, and Motherhood in the Political Imagination of Indigenous People
VICTORIA BOMBERRY	21	(18)
CHAPTER 3 Personalizing Methodology: Narratives of Imprisoned Native Women
LUANA ROSS	39	(24)
CHAPTER 4 Rape and the War against Native Women
ANDREA SMITH	63	(14)
CHAPTER 5 The Big Pipe Case
ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN	77	(16)
CHAPTER 6 Toward a Decolonization of the Mind and Text: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
GLORIA BIRD	93	(14)
CHAPTER 7 Native InFormation
JOANNE BARKER AND TERESIA TEAIWA	107	(22)
CHAPTER 8 Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant: Living on Occupied Land
HULLEAH J. TSINHNAHJINNIE	129	(16)
CHAPTER 9 The Storyteller's Escape: Sovereignty and Worldview
REID GÓMEZ	145	(26)
CHAPTER 10 Relocations Upon Relocations: Home, Language and Native American Women's Writings
INÉS HERNÁNDEZ-AVILA	171	(18)
CHAPTER 11 The Trick Is Going Home: Secular Spiritualism in Native American Women's Literature
CAROLYN DUNN	189	(14)
CHAPTER 12 Dildos, Hummingbirds and Driving Her Crazy: Searching for American Indian Women's Love Poetry and Erotics
DEBORAH A. MIRANDA	203	(16)
CHAPTER 13 Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking About Their Religious and Political Perspectives
INÉS TALAMANTEZ	219	(32)
CHAPTER 14 Out of Bounds: Indigenous Knowing and the Study of Religion
MARY C. CHURCHILL	251	(18)
Credits	269	(2)
About the Authors	271