Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women's Autobiography
- ISBN-10
- 0826359167
- ISBN-13
- 9780826359162
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-12-15
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Author
- Annette Angela Portillo
Description
In Sovereign Stories, Annette Angela Portillo examines Native American women’s autobiographical discourses and multiple-voiced life stories that resist generic conventional notions of first-person narrative. She argues that these “sovereign stories” and “blood memories” not only reveal the multilayered histories and identities shared by each author, but demonstrate how their narratives are grounded in ancestral memory and land. These autobiographies recall settler-colonialism, deterritorialization, and genocide as the writers and activist-scholars reclaim their voices across cultural, national, and digital boundaries. Portillo provides close readings of memoirs, life stories, oral histories, blogs, social media sites, and experimental multigenre narratives including those by Delfina Cuero, Ruby Modesto, Leslie Marmon Silko, Pretty-Shield, Zitkala-Sa, and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins.
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