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Mapping Out a Treacherous Terrain: Working at the Crossroads of Autobiographical Studies and Inter-American Literary Studies
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What does it mean to do autobiographical studies within the realm of Inter-American studies? What does it mean to study the story of a self within the context of such a huge terrain—geographic, cultural, linguistic, ethnic? In this chapter I look briefly at two Indigenous bilingual texts from
Allen xi). The texts chosen are bilingual texts, life narratives of Cree women, printed in Cree and English. I argue that a recognition of literary and rhetorical sovereignty means that we do not impose critical terms from other cultural traditions in our readings of Indigenous texts. ¿Qué significa