Jak psát o odlišnosti: Autobiografické reakce původních obyvatelek Austrálie a Severní Ameriky na mainstreamový feminismus

• Authors: Horakova M.

Title variants

EN

INSCRIBING DIFFERENCE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RESPONSES OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA AND NORTH AMERICA TO MAINSTREAM FEMINISM

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the strategies of inscribing difference within the feminist discourse in the texts of three contemporary indigenous writers, Jackie Huggins' 'Sistergirl' (1998), Lee Maracle's 'I Am Woman' (1996) and Paula Gunn Allen's 'The Sacred Hoop' (1986). The authoress argues that these texts, by communicating perspectives on Indigenous women's identities, representations, and their common struggles in the 20th century, help to deconstruct the universalist and homogeneous category of woman, developed by the second-wave first-world mainstream feminism. In their engagement in multi-generic, experiential and subjective writing, such representations offer a significant alternative to the mainstream imaginary of female indigeneity.

Keywords

EN

FEMINIST DISCOURSE; INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S IDENTITIES; WOMAN'S HOMOGENOUS CATEGORY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-39
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horakova M.

• M. Horakova, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Arna Nováka 1, 660 88 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA02765647