Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momadayâs The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria AnzaldÃºaâs Borderlands / La Frontera

Anna M. BrÃ­gido-CorachÃ¡n

Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momadayâs The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria AnzaldÃºaâs Borderlands / La Frontera

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Anna M. BrÃgido-CorachÃ¡n

Anna M. BrÃgido-CorachÃ¡n Universitat de ValÃ¨ncia

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Unlike traditional Western autobiographies, which tend to circle around questions of individuality and the developing subject, Native American selfnarrations have dwelt on the construction of a âcommunal or relational selfâ (Wong 2005: 127), that is, indigenous memoirs clearly illustrate how individual and communal histories are necessarily interrelated. Moreover, many Native American authors have also manifested a certain appeal for ethnic âaf-filiation,â as a need for recognition and validation both by mainstream society and by their communities. In this respect, self-writing becomes an imaginative search for belonging and a rhetorical exercise to establish an authoritative voice that uses the text to claim new spaces for ethnic communities, and for the writers themselves in the public sphere of the nation. This chapter explores two contemporary experimental self-histories written by mixed-blood writers in the United States. First, it focuses on Kiowa novelist N. Scott Momadayâs foundational text The Way to Rainy Mountain as one such âmultivocalâ self-narration that constitutes both a history of the Kiowa people, a memoir of lyrically intertwined familiar and communal stories, as well as a subtle plea for personal and cultural recognition. Second, the chapter engages the radical self-figurative journey of Chicana intellectual Gloria AnzaldÃºa, who in her autobiographical, historical and poetic memoir Borderlands/La Frontera privileges a mystified Aztec heritage in the construction of her own narrative and political persona. Hers is also a communal and relational self that seeks recognition through ancestral female indigenous voices that she strategically unearths in order to legitimize her New Mestiza/Chicana consciousness.

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Selves in Dialogue

A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing

Reihe:Â Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature, Band: 5

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 01 Jan 2011

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Native Journeys of Self-Figuration: N. Scott Momadayâs The Way to Rainy Mountain and Gloria AnzaldÃºaâs Borderlands / La Frontera