Two Spirit Indigenous Feminism
Complementary and Reciprocal Relationships in Native Literature
Two Spirit Indigenous Feminism
Complementary and Reciprocal Relationships in Native Literature
Description
Two Spirit Indigenous Feminism: Complementary and Reciprocal Relationships in Native Literature creates and employs a combined Two Spirit with Indigenous feminist intersectional literary analysis to understand gender-based violence and to add to the ongoing effort to decolonize and realize autonomy and sovereignty. Two guiding principles of social balance - complementarity and reciprocity - help to uncover how the authorial use of these concepts in relation to gender performances attempt to create a balanced relationship between reader and text/author that simultaneously decolonizes readers' minds and opens the possibility for a more equitable society free from ongoing gender and race-based violence. This analysis explores how Native authors from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries navigate heteropatriarchal ideologies and practices through producing subtle and ironic critique, balancing identity constructions and relationships across cultures, adapting healing traditions and gender roles, transcending borders and binaries, and connecting race and gender ideologies to national identity to decolonize and maintain sovereignty.
Table of Contents
2. John Rollin Ridge and Hypermasculine Conflict on the Frontier: An Ideological Captivity Narrative
3. Gender, Literacy, and Sovereignty in Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes
4. Systemic Transformation: Storytelling in Silko's Ceremony
5. Fighting the Reservation of the Mind: Moving Across Borders and Binaries in Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
6. “Cultural Integrity, Resilience, and Indigenous Feminism in Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman”
7. Conclusion: “The Erotics of Fancydancing: Ideology/Identity in a Two Spirit Indigenous feminist rhetoric”
Product details
| Published | 01 Oct 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216265641 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |














