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Indiscipline - by Alicia Carroll (Paperback)

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  • In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States.
  • About the Author: Alicia Carroll is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.
  • 220 Pages
  • Social Science,

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"In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with the Department of the Interior's publication of the 'Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.' In this book, Alicia Carroll tells the history of one form of literary Native resistance to this violence, that of the collaboratively written autobiography. Focusing on work by Hopi boarding school residents, Carroll shows readers that collaborative autobiographical authorship is a practice of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, using a method they dub indiscipline: a strategy of defying, refusing, or purposefully failing to follow mandates to conform to settler colonial sex and gender norms, including heteronormativity, the binary construct of sex and gender, and the idea of personhood itself. Through collaboratively written autobiography, Carroll argues that Native authors not only resisted colonial attempts to use sex and gender to alienate them from their homelands and bodies, they created an important Indigenous literary genre that informs our understanding of Native life and art today"--



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In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with the Department of the Interior's publication of the "Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report." In this book, Alicia Carroll tells the history of one form of literary Native resistance to this violence, that of the collaboratively written autobiography. Focusing on work by Hopi boarding school residents, Carroll shows readers that collaborative autobiographical authorship is a practice of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, using a method they dub indiscipline: a strategy of defying, refusing, or purposefully failing to follow mandates to conform to settler colonial sex and gender norms, including heteronormativity, the binary construct of sex and gender, and the idea of personhood itself.

Through collaboratively written autobiography, Carroll argues that Native authors not only resisted colonial attempts to use sex and gender to alienate them from their homelands and bodies, they created an important Indigenous literary genre that informs our understanding of Native life and art today.



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Alicia Carroll is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .51 Inches (D)
Weight: .76 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 220
Genre: Social Science
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Alicia Carroll
Language: English
Street Date: October 29, 2024
TCIN: 92968439
UPC: 9781469678757
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-9434
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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