Tiresias Speaks: Sarah Winnemucca's Hybrid Selves and Genres

Carpenter, Cari M.

doi:10.1353/leg.2003.0004

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“…If read as an activist text, the portrayal of the Northern Paiutes as implausibly naïve, together with the elements of sentimentality that draw on romanticized constructions of womanhood and Indianness, at best seem out of place, and at worst an expression of internalized racism and sexism. 59 The activism itself does not quite fit the genre of the autobiography, nor does the anthropological gaze. If it is meant to be an autobiography, perhaps it is a failed one.…”

Section: Resistant In Both Content and Formmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Authentic Indian”: Sarah Winnemucca's Resistance to Colonial Constructions of Indianness

Humud¹

2018

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Paiute author, lecturer, interpreter, and army scout, exploited the biopolitical fiction of ‘Indian authenticity’ to claim a political, activist space for herself and her agenda. Winnemucca's work has generated a great deal of controversy over the last century. The ‘authentic Indian’ stereotypes Winnemucca engages are so intrinsic to settler colonial biopower that dealing with either her lecture series or her autobiography within the traditional binary of assimilation/tradition has been counterproductive. I argue that her work constitutes a challenge to Indigenous authenticity as a strategy of settler biopolitics.

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Section: Resistant In Both Content and Formmentioning

confidence: 99%