REVIEW ESSAY: Reshaping American Indian Autobiography in Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules

Authors

  • Kimberly Gail Wieser Assistant Professor, Department of English Affiliated Native Studies Faculty University of Oklahoma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.194

Keywords:

Native American, Autobiography, Rape, Sexual Violence, Cascade Indians

Abstract

Book review of Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules

Author Biography

Kimberly Gail Wieser, Assistant Professor, Department of English Affiliated Native Studies Faculty University of Oklahoma

Dr. Kimberly (Roppolo) Wieser is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member with Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is Director of Native Writers Circle of the Americas and serves as President of the Board of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She is one of the co-authors of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, named one of the most important books in her field in the first decade of the 21st century by NAISA. Her manuscript Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Studies—winner of the NWCA First Books Award for Prose 2004—is under review. She has written and published poems, stories, articles, book reviews, and reference entries for anthologies and for a variety of academic publications and Native American newspapers. Her areas of interest are Native critical theories, contemporary Native literatures, (particularly women's literatures), Native rhetorics, and Native creative writing. 

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Published

2015-11-20

How to Cite

Wieser, K. G. (2015). REVIEW ESSAY: Reshaping American Indian Autobiography in Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules. Transmotion, 1(2), 91. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.194

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Reviews

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Copyright (c) 2015 Kimberly Gail Wieser

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