Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Alternate Title
American Literatures Initiative
E-Books
Author/Creator
Laura J. Beard
Looks at Gerald Vizenor's, Hiroshima Bugi, Katsuichi Honda's Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale and Shigeru Kayano's Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir and the importance of the survivance narrative.
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.