Review Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts
RIS ID
28705
Abstract
The prevalence of tropes of blood and soil as markers of difference in Indigenous textual production may continue to trouble postcolonial theorists favouring strategies of hybridity and mimicry, but for Chadwick Allen ‘blood narrative’-the deployment of the rhetorical figures of blood, land and memory-is not an essentialist first stage through which Indigenous textuality must pass; rather, it provides a necessary basis and an ongoing orientation for Indigenous writing which has been significantly influenced by treaty discourse, as is the case in Native North America and in Aotearoaew Zealand.
Publication Details
Jacklin, M, Review Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 15(3), 2004, p 344-345.