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Story as a Weapon in Colonized America

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dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, Elizabeth Leighen
dc.contributor.committeecochairDyer, Harryen
dc.contributor.committeecochairSiegle, Robert B.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRadcliffe, David H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCorntassel, Jeffrey J.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:34:19Zen
dc.date.adate2002-04-30en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:34:19Zen
dc.date.issued2002-04-15en
dc.date.rdate2003-04-30en
dc.date.sdate2002-04-24en
dc.description.abstractFrom first contact, Europeans and Euro-Americans have been representing North American indigenous peoples in literature. Non-Indian authors colonized American Indian stories and re-presented them through a Western worldview, which distorted and misrepresented Indian peoples. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?s piece, Song of Hiawatha, published in 1855 is an early example of this, and Ann Rinaldi?s children?s book, My Heart Is on the Ground, is a contemporary example. However, Indian peoples are not mere victims. Using story as a weapon for ?decolonization,? American Indian authors have self-re-presented and, through literature, have fought for a more accurate, tribal specific presentation of self to the dominant culture. Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) authored decolonizing, autobiographical articles and short stories as early as 1901 and collected and published these in her text American Indian Stories in 1920. James Welch continued a legacy of tribal specific, American Indian authored literature with his 1986 publication, Fools Crow. Both texts work as weapons in the decolonization of American literature.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04242002-184740en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04242002-184740/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42187en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartwilkinson.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.subjectColonizationen
dc.subjectAmerican Indianen
dc.subjectDecolonizationen
dc.titleStory as a Weapon in Colonized Americaen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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