Jackpine Roots
Autobiography, Tradition, and Resistance in the Stories of Three Yukon Elders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2917953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cynthia Carsten Wentz (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | UCLA American Indian Studies Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicr.22.1.05064k505w3p441u |
| OpenAlex | W2259370465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Recent criticisms of Native American collaborative autobiographies have focused on the ethical implications of colonialism. Hertha D. Wong notes that "as Native Americans and Euro-Americans clashed and negotiated historically, representatives of these two distinct cultures interacted textually within the pages of transitional autobiography."' Early collaborative Native American autobiographies, which emerge out of the contact situation of the late nineteenth century, must be viewed in the larger context of cultural control. To many Native Americans this critical period represented a time of adaptation to reservation life along with its threat to cultural identity. With virtually every area of Native American life and self-expression under attack from Euro-American colonizers, the question of who controlled the inscription of American Indian lives is crucial. Although many early ethnographers viewed the collaborative autobiography as a means for "preserving" Native culture and identity, the strong control exerted by non-Indian collaborators over the process of cultural textualization in many cases amounted to acts of colonialism
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Life lived like a story
On Ethnographic Allegory
Telling "A Good One"
Varieties of American Indian Autobiography
For those Who Come after
Native American Aesthetics
The Telling Which Continues
American Indian Autobiography
Sending My Heart Back across the Years
The Critical Collaboration
Contemporary Native American Autobiography
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |