Vida e escrita em trabalhos de Lee Maracle: a busca por desenvolvimento de uma mulher indígena canadense

Abstract

This dissertation s objective is analyzing three books by Lee Maracle, First Nations Canadian author, based on postcolonial and feminist theories, briefly visiting the Canadian history, in order to contextualize Maracle s literary production. Maracle s first publication took place in 1975, with the release of her autobiography Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel. This dissertation, however, intends to discuss the second edition of this book, enlarged in 1990. The autobiographical narrative allows us to become familiar with the struggles, difficulties and actual situation of Canadian Indigenous peoples, which permits our subsequent analysis of the evolution of Maracle s writing at the publication of her novels. Sundogs (1992) was the author s first novel. By the first-person narrator, Marianne, Sundogs unfolds the young protagonist s search for her Indigenous identity. The latest novel by Maracle, Daughters are Forever (2002), presents a mythological introduction to the formation of Turtle Island , America, based on Native oral traditions. The novel narrates Marilyn s trajectory, a mid-fifties social worker that suffers from her daughters distancing, due to her poor motherhood. The clear improvement of literary techniques along the years transforms Lee Maracle in one of the oppressed voices that breaks the silence through Indigenous literature, denouncing the reality of her, for centuries, marginalized people