Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and M̐uetis ̐uacimisowina / Deanna Reder.

Author/creator Reder, Deanna, 1963- author.
Format Book
PublicationWaterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
Copyright Datecu2022
Descriptionxii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesIndigenous studies series
Indigenous studies series. ^A1191122
Abstract "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 M̐uetis, or n̐uehiyawak, 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 n̐uehiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in n̐uehiyawak 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic formats.
Issued in other formOnline version: Reder, Deanna, 1963- Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022 177112556X 9781771125550
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9781771125543
ISBN1771125543 paperback

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