Claiming voice, writing difference a compartative analysis of indigenous women's life writing in Australia and North America /
This dissertation titled Claiming Voice, Writing Difference: A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Women’s Life Writing in Australia and North America analyzes six life writing narratives of contemporary Indigenous women writers. In the first chapter I compare Sister Girl by Jackie Huggins, I Am Woma...
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| Typ dokumentu: | VŠ práce nebo rukopis |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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2007
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| On-line přístup: | http://is.muni.cz/th/19091/ff_d/ |
| Shrnutí: | This dissertation titled Claiming Voice, Writing Difference: A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Women’s Life Writing in Australia and North America analyzes six life writing narratives of contemporary Indigenous women writers. In the first chapter I compare Sister Girl by Jackie Huggins, I Am Woman by Lee Maracle and The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen. These texts have been chosen for their significant engagement in critical responses to Western mainstream feminism and for their re-writing of the representations of Indigenous womanhood, motherhood and sisterhood. Although each of them reflects a particular Indigenous woman’s experience in her time and space, together the narratives offer an insight into the ways Indigenous women writers creatively inscribe their difference. In Sister Girl, Jackie Huggins draws attention to the complicity of white Australian women in the labour exploitation of Aboriginal women, in the system of separating Aboriginal children from their families, and |
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| Popis jednotky: | Vedoucí práce: Kateřina Prajznerová |
| Fyzický popis: | 226 l. |