Paula Gunn Allen

Title

Paula Gunn Allen

Birth Date

1939

Death Date

2008

Primary Sources

Allen, P. G. (2003). Pocahontas. Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat, Sans Francisico: Harper Collins.

Allen, P. G. (1998).Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting, Border-Crossing, Loose Canons, Boston, Mass: Beacon. Accessed Jun 5 2022  https://archive.org/details/offreservationre0000alle

Allen, P. G. (1997) Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995. West End Press.

Allen, P. G. and Smith P. C. (1996). As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans. Scholastic Press. 

Allen, P. G. (1992). Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook, Boston, Mass: Beacon Press.

Allen, P. G (1986). The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions.Boston, Mass:Beacon Press.

Allen, P. G (1983). The Woman Who Owned the Shadows. Aunt Lute Books.

Secondary Sources

Gambino, E. (2023). Red Roots of Solidarity: Paula Gunn Allen and the Queer Audiences of Intellectual Sovereignty. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 48(3), 635-658. 
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/723266

Attie, J. P. (2019). The decolonial perspective on America’s founding mother myth: a study of Paula Gunn Allen’s Pocahontas. Letras Escreve, 9(2), 27-34. Accessed June 30 2022 https://periodicos.unifap.br/index.php/letras/article/view/5643

LeMaster, M. (2005). Pocahontas: (De)Constructing an American Myth [Review of Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma; Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown; Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat; Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation, by C. Townsend, H. C. Rountree, P. G. Allen, & D. A. Price]. The William and Mary Quarterly, 62(4), 774–781. https://doi.org/10.2307/3491451 

Milspaw, Y. J. (1990). (Review of The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions, by P. G. Allen). The Journal of American Folklore, 103(408), 245–247. 
https://doi.org/10.2307/541875

Ballinger, F., Swann, B., & Allen, P. G. (1983). A MELUS Interview: Paula Gunn Allen. Melus, 10(2), 3-25.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/467306

Extra Resources

The Sacred Hoop" (Part 1), with Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, Radio interview by Simon R. Watson, Green Majority on CIUT 89.5 FM, University of Toronto. (October 26, 2007). Youtube. Accessed Aug 7,2022. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOzk2-gQqDw

Citation

“Paula Gunn Allen,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed October 14, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/486.

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