About the book
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.
Editions of Indiscipline
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469678740
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469678757
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469678771
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469678764
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469681634
- PDF
- ISBN 9781469681627
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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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Indiscipline about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Indiscipline?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
Where can I read a sample of Indiscipline?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781469678740
How long is Indiscipline and how many pages does it have?
Indiscipline has 220 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Indiscipline?
Alicia Carroll
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Indiscipline is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469678740) and paperback(ISBN 9781469678757) and ebook(ISBN 9781469678771) and ebook(ISBN 9781469678764) and ebook(ISBN 9781469681634) and pdf(ISBN 9781469681627)
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