United States: Indigenous Autobiography en Abyme: Indigenous Reflections On Representational Agency In The Case Of Crashing Thunder

United States: Indigenous Autobiography en Abyme: Indigenous Reflections On Representational Agency In The Case Of Crashing Thunder   Grant Arndt, 2012   This article shows that Crashing Thunder (1926), recognized as the first book-length American Indian autobiography published by an anthropologist, contains multiple, nested accounts of a pivotal moment in the life of its Ho-Chunk author, Sam Blowsnake: the killing of a man in 1903. Focusing on these nested accounts, the article...

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