Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories
Native American Women's Autobiography
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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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"This interdisciplinary study expands the canon of Western literary and cultural production by including lesser-known works of Native women's autobiography and making a case for reading Indigenous women's cyberactivism as a digital-age extension of Native autobiographical traditions."--Alicia Cox, Western American Literature
"These collective memoirs of American Indian women are powerful reminders of the struggle of those who are often overlooked by historians dealing with Indian issues."--Roundup
"This book is an effort to recover indigenous epistemologies, an intimate embrace of spoken and visual images, silhouettes imprinted in the minds of Native American women over the centuries that are inspiring a new cadre of scholars."--Inés M. Talamantez, coeditor of Teaching Religion and Healing
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