Indigenous Auto/Biographies: Musings in Histories, Contemporalities and Futurisms

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Genealogy invites essays on the topic of “Indigenous Auto/Biographies: Musings in Histories, Contemporalities, and Futurisms”. Authors of Indigenous auto/biographies draw material and make sense of experiences from their personal, social, cultural, and political lives—this may be true too of those who write biographies of Indigenous peoples although they themselves are not Indigenous. We invite contributors to explore the social, cultural, political, ethical, and personal ramifications of these practices. We seek articles examining all forms of Indigenous representation in auto/biography from a variety of formats, including but not limited to memoirs, stage and screen plays, comic acts, poetry, film, and scholarship. Contributors may think about how auto/biography has been documented and/or published in historical and contemporary contexts and what the future might hold in this space. Are Indigenous stories limited by audiences? Do Indigenous lives expand forms of telling? How does the publishing or production of auto/biographies impact the stories told?  Are authors using Indigenous auto/biography as a platform of identity, representation, activism, culture, truth-telling? Do Indigenous narratives reinforce or challenge audiences/readers opinions on key matters? What is the value of Indigenous auto/biography? What innovations have been made in this field? Are there social/cultural criticisms and social/cultural meanings in works produced by non-Indigenous people?

We hope that this Special Issue provides an opportunity for scholars to explore past, present, and future uses of these genres, and the potential for expansion and extension of Indigenous auto/biography. With this issue, we aim to open new perspectives on the multiplicity and plurality of memories, and who and what gets to remember and be remembered, and how that is transacted, and translated.

This Special Issue is wide in focus and encourages Indigenous authorship from across the disciplines. Topics might include:

• Identity and auto/biography;
• Activism in auto/biography;
• Alternative narratives;
• Fact or fiction;
• Life story as a telling of the past and its relationship to futures;
• Controversial lives;
• Teaching Indigenous auto/biography;
• Indigenous auto/biography as data;
• Indigenous auto/biography praxis;
• Genealogy of Indigenous auto/biography.

Dr. Corrinne Sullivan
Dr. Sandra Phillips
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Genealogy is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• indigenous
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• first nations
• identity
• representation
• cultural currency
• activism
• storytelling
• genealogy
• kinship
• community
• futures