Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.

Doctoral thesis

Claiming Voice, Writing Difference: A Compartative Analysis of Indigenous Women's Life Writing in Australia and North America

Claiming Voice, Writing Difference: A Compartative Analysis of Indigenous Women's Life Writing in Australia and North America
Abstract:
This dissertation titled Claiming Voice, Writing Difference: A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Women’s Life Writing in Australia and North America analyzes six life writing narratives of contemporary Indigenous women writers. In the first chapter I compare Sister Girl by Jackie Huggins, I Am Woman by Lee Maracle and The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen. These texts have been chosen for their significant …more
Abstract:
gins’ auto/biographical narrative Auntie Rita (1994) as a particular example that helps me point out new strategies and formal innovations that, in one way or another, strengthen, further develop and/or transgress some of the textual characteristics examined in the preceding chapters. The potential of this and similar texts to perform the dialogic forms of the selves, as well as employ a very introspective …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 8. 6. 2007

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 22. 6. 2007
  • Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A.
  • Reader: prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., Dr. Jürgen Martini

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Doctoral programme / field:
Philology / Literature Comparatistics

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