Abstract
This examination of the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories (1921) by Native American woman writer Gertrude Bonnin, considers the various strategies of resistance to assimilation that are used. Homi Bhabha's theory of the Third Space and of hybridity illuminates this study of a “liminal” writer (Fisher xiii). Subjected to assimilationist schooling, Bonnin reveals in her stories how she negotiated the gulf between white and Indian cultures with her hybrid identity and found a ‘subaltern’ voice by using the English language as a counter‐colonial strategy.
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