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T1 Rewriting History, Post-Coloniality and Feminism: Lee Maracle's Autobiographical Works
A1 Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther
AB Lee Maracle’s I Am Woman (1988) and Bobbi Lee. Indian Rebel(1990) are autobiographical works that rewrite the conventions of representingthe Native in the context of Canadian history and society.Through her autobiographical “I”, Maracle narrates herself aspoliticalrepresentative for women and for the Métis.This essay aims to investigate Maracle’s political displacement ofconventional representational practices. The importance of IAW&BLIRto revisionary historiography is that both works document the struggleof Natives today within a history of resistance. Writing from a positionof “cultural siege”, “under occupation”, Maracle analyzes her positionas a Native woman within an active struggle of decolonialization. Hersis a new history and historiography different from both white writingon the Native and traditional Native “historical”, oral narratives. It isthe history of struggle in the 1960s and 1970s in a hybrid narrativemode. As we shall argue, this is history as narrating, as telling, in traditionalnative fashion, but within recognizable dates and events and theconventions of “colonial” history.
SN e-2530-8335
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RD 25-nov-2024