American Indian epistemology in Deborah A. Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

• Authors: Welizarowicz Grzegorz

Title variants

PL

Epistemologia Indian amerykańskich w Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir Deborah A. Mirandy

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay proposes that Deborah A. Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) is a work animated by the principles of American Indian epistemology. First, a model of Native philosophy is outlined after Native philosopher Thomas Norton-Smith. Secondly, four dimensions of Miranda’s work – its ethical and procedural purpose, generic location, metalinguistic strategy, narrative as a vehicle of knowledge – are analyzed in the light of Norton-Smith, Roland Barthes, California historians, American Indian literary studies, decolonial theory, and auto-ethnography. In conclusion, it is posited that Miranda’s story is an animated entity enacting ontological, intersubjective, historical difference, and that it intervenes into the genre of memoir/autobiography.

PL

Zamiarem autora jest dowiedzenie, że pamiętnik Deborah A. Mirandy zatytułowany Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) motywowany jest zasadami epistemologii Indian amerykańskich. Analiza przebiega następująco: najpierw zarysowany jest model rdzennej epistemologii; potem, analizie w świetle propozycji filozofa indiańskiego Thomasa Nortona-Smitha, a także Rolanda Barthesa, historyków Kalifornii, literaturoznawstwa indiańskiego, teorii dekolonialnej, a także, elementów auto-etnograficznych poddane są cztery aspekty dzieła Mirandy: etyczny i proceduralny cel, lokalizacja gatunkowe, strategia metalingwistyczna i narracja jako przekaźnik wiedzy. W konkluzjach autor argumentuje, że opowieść Mirandy jest potencjalnym bytem ożywionym uosabiającym ontologiczną, intersubiektywną i historycz-ną różnicę oraz, że Miranda realizuje ten byt między innymi poprzez interwencję w gatunek autobiografii.

Keywords

EN

Deborah A. Miranda; California Indians; American Indian epistemology; California missions; memoir; Roland Barthes

PL

Deborah A. Miranda; Indianie kalifornijscy; epistemologia Indian; misje kalifornijskie; pamiętnik; Roland Barthes

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 15/4
• Pages: 117-155

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Welizarowicz Grzegorz

• Uniwersytet Gdański

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