Patrice Hollrah

The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell

The Power of Women in Native American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781138977440
• ISBN-10: 1138977446
• Artikelnr.: 57043592

Autorenporträt

Patrice Hollrah

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Writing is Different from Tribe to Tribe: Cultural and
Historical Contexts 2. The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell: Why Feminist
Theory Does Not Apply to Native American Literature 3. We Must Be Masters
of Our Circumstances: Rhetorical Sovereignty in the Life and Works of
Zitkala-Sa 4. The Men in the Bar Feared Her: The Power of Ayah in Leslie
Marmon Silko's Lullaby 5. Women Are Strong, Strong, Terribly Strong: Female
Intellectual Sovereignty in the Works of Louise Erdrich 6. 'I'm Talking
Like a [. . .] Twenty-First-Century Woman': Contemporary Female Warriors in
the Works of Sherman Alexie 7. Conclusion: Indian Women Were and Are
Powerful: Intellectual Sovereignty, and the Strength of Female Warriors