A01=Patrice Hollrah
american
American Indian Women
Author_Patrice Hollrah
Big Mom
Bingo Palace
Blue Jay's Dance
Blue Jay’s Dance
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complementarity
cultural paradigms in literature
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female empowerment narratives
gender
Gender Complementarity
indian
Indian Women
indigenous feminist perspectives
indigenous women intellectual history
intellectual
Intellectual Sovereignty
laguna
Laguna Pueblo
literature
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
matriarchal societies
native
Native American Literature
Native American Women
Navajo Culture
Navajo Women
Plains Indian Women
pueblo
Reservation Blues
rhetorical sovereignty
Rushes Bear
Saint Junior
Sherman Alexie
sovereignty
Spokane Indian
Spokane Indian Reservation
Spokane Tribe
Standing Rock Sioux
Tonto Fistfight
tribal gender roles
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138977440
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of life, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of these empowered female characters in Native American literature. Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah suggests that it is important to evaluate Native American literary female characters in a cultural paradigm that is less Euro-American and more compatible to the complementarity of Native American culture.
