Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis Âcimisowina

by Deanna Reder

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771125543
• ISBN13: 9781771125543
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"