Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes : biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature /: biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joanna Ziarkowska.
• Authors: Ziarkowska, Joanna
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9897; American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians in literature; Health in literature; Medicine in literature; Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects; Indians of North America -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000194111; 9781000194050; 9781000194081; 9781003036890
• Related ISBNs: 9780367478520
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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