1st Edition
Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature
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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Biography
Joanna Ziarkowska is a Native American Studies scholar at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, where she teaches courses devoted to Native American literature, Literature and Medicine, and Film Studies.
