Joanna Ziarkowska

Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes (eBook, PDF)

Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. It will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000194050
• Artikelnr.: 60026121

Autorenporträt

Joanna Ziarkowska is a Native American Studies scholar at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, where she teaches courses devoted to Native American literature, Literature and Medicine, and Film Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Indigenizing biomedicalization: community, relationality,
and embodied resistance in Native American literature
Part I: TUBERCULOSIS
Chapter 1: Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical
experimentation: a history of tuberculosis among Native Americans
Chapter 2: Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan:
A Lakota Woman's Story, as told through Mark S. Pierre and Louise Erdrich's
LaRose
Part II: DIABETES
Chapter 3: Developing Indigenous models of diabetes: from genetic fatalism
to community-based approaches
Chapter 4: Beyond the biomedical model of diabetes: settler colonialism,
traditional foodways, and historical trauma in Sherman Alexie's selected
works and LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Part III: BLOOD AND GENES
Chapter 5: From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native
American DNA: a story of biocolonialism at the turn of the millennium
Chapter 6: "We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily
cells": mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan's
autobiographical writing
Part IV: INDIGENIZING BIOMEDICALIZATION
Chapter 7: The traffic of cells and ideas: Heid E. Erdrich's
biotechnological poetry
Chapter 8: Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the
politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta's My Body Is a Book of Rules
Coda