Autobiography As Indigenous Intellectual Tradition by Deanna ... - 9781771125543

Autobiography As Indigenous Intellectual TraditionCree and Mtis cimisowina\nAuthor(s): Deanna Reder\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada\nImprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press\nISBN-13: 9781771125543, 978-1771125543\nSynopsis\nAutobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing.\nSince the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and Mtis, or nhiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family .