Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes

Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes

Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature

Ziarkowska, Joanna

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2020

270

Dura

Inglês

9780367478520

15 a 20 dias

453

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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

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Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart;biomedicalization processes;Blood Quantum;diabetes epidemics;Human Genome Diversity Project;Native American literary responses;Tuberculosis Epidemic;tuberculosis;Kennewick Man;biomedical discourses;Indigenous Bodies;Blood Memory;Native American Literature;Thrifty Gene Hypothesis;Dawes Allotment Act;Native American Identity;Biomedical Model;Santa Clara Pueblo;Indian Boarding Schools;Settler Colonial Invasion;Native Patients;Settler Colonial Practices;Native American;DNA Test;American Indian Literary Nationalism;Brave Heart;Eeyou Istchee;Young Man;Traditional Foodways;Biomedical Psychiatry