GNDR341

Indigenous Womxn’s Autobiographies

Engages Indigenous womxn's historicized and politicized lives through auto/biography and memoir. Theorizes these genres as arising from both an Indigenous oral literary tradition and Euro-American written tradition. Engages a range of texts that are both narrated by Indigenous womxn and mediated by Indigenous and non-Indigenous editors. Students are located as witnesses and subject location of the reader is engaged through the concept of relationality with Indigenous womxn’s stories.