„Írok, mert az anyám nem tehette.” Matrilineáris örökség mint önreprezentációs eszköz a Reinventing the Enemy’s Language című antológiában
“I Write Because My Mother Could Not” – Matrilineal Heritage as a Tool of Self-Representation in the Anthology Reinventing the Enemy's Language

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the anthology Reinventing the Enemy's Language (1997), edited by Gloria Bird and Joy Harjo, focusing on how the volume's authors represent matrilineal heritage as a strategy of self-representation. To this end, I identify the knowledge transmitted through female lineage along three mutually constitutive dimensions – the sacrality of the body, the relationship to language, and the responsibilities traditionally associated with women in tribal communities – interpreted through Brant Castellano’s and Janice Hill’s defining characteristics of Indigenous knowledge. A further aim is to outline an ethical, non-native methodology that complements literary analysis with anthropological sensitivity.

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