Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition : Cree and M̐uetis ̐uacimisowina / Deanna Reder.
| Author/creator | Reder, Deanna, 1963- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022] |
| Copyright Date | cu2022 |
| Description | xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Indigenous 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Reder, Deanna, 1963- Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022 177112556X 9781771125550 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781771125543 |
| ISBN | 1771125543 paperback |
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