WS 341

Indigenous Women's Narrated Lives

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Explores Indigenous women's auto/biography as a creative form of expression that draws upon both the Indigenous oral tradition and the written tradition of Euro-American autobiography. Looks at a range of Indigenous women's autobiographical texts created under a variety of circumstances, from life histories narrated by Indigenous women and 'mediated' by non-Native recorder-editors, to contemporary texts written by Native women themselves that challenge the boundaries of conventional autobiography.

Prerequisites: One of 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 219; or permission of the department.

Undergraduate course in Women's Studies offered by the Department of Women's Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.