Blood Narrative - Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

"I cannot think of a more provocative or evocative title for a book that addresses the narrative tactics and activism of indigenous writings. Allen draws upon the tactical differences deployed by American Indian and New Zealand Maori writers to provide insights into the ways that indigenous minority writing has defined an enduring identity of indigeneity. "Blood Narrative" is elegantly written, provocative in some of its arguments, rich in examples and well worth reading."--Linda Tuhiwai Smith, The University of Auckland

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Marking the Indigenous in Indigenous Minority Texts

Part I. A Directed Self-Determination

1. A Marae on Paper: Writing a New Maori World in Te Ao Hou

2. Indian Truth: Debating Indigenous Identity after Indians in the War

Part II. An Indigenous Renaissance
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3. Rebuilding the Ancestor: Constructing Self and Community in the Maori Renaissance

4. Blood/Land/Memory: Narrating Indigenous Identity in the American Indian Renaissance

Conclusion: Declaring a Fourth World

Appendix: Integrated Time Line, World War II to 1980

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Chadwick Allen

Product details

• Authors: Chadwick Allen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2002
• EAN: 9780822329299
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2929-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Neuseeland, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren