Paula Gunn Allen

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Native American writer essayist feminist literary critic novelist person poet scholar

Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, novelist, critic, and scholar whose work powerfully advanced Indigenous feminism and Native American literary studies.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American writer ⓘ essayist ⓘ feminist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in American Studies ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1939-10-24 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2008-05-29 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of New Mexico ⓘ University of Oregon ⓘ
employer	San Francisco State University ⓘ University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ University of New Mexico ⓘ
ethnicity	Laguna Pueblo ⓘ Scots-Irish American ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Sioux
fieldOfWork	American studies ⓘ Indigenous feminism ⓘ Native American literature ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ women's studies ⓘ
genre	anthology editing ⓘ fiction ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ poetry ⓘ
hasGender	female ⓘ
influenced	Native American literary studies ⓘ feminist literary criticism ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	Indigenous feminism ⓘ Native American Renaissance ⓘ
notableIdea	centrality of women in Indigenous traditions ⓘ recovery of Native women’s voices in literature ⓘ
notableWork	Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook ⓘ Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962–1995 ⓘ Skins and Bones: Poems 1979–1987 ⓘ Spider Woman’s Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women ⓘ The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions ⓘ The Woman Who Owned the Shadows ⓘ
occupation	professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Fort Bragg ⓘ surface form: Fort Bragg, California, United States
religion	Native American spirituality ⓘ

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