![]() ![]() Her 1983 novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, reflected her upbringing as a mixed-blood struggling with creative expression. In 1978 she received a NEA creative writing fellowship, followed two years later by a postdoctoral fellowship to study at UCLA. in American Studies with a concentration in Native American Literature. ![]() After receiving her BA and MFA degrees from the University of Oregon, Allen returned to New Mexico to receive her Ph.D. Daughter of a Lebanese-American father and a Laguna-Sioux-Scottish mother, Allen was raised in New Mexico on the Laguna Pueblo where she was deeply influenced by matriarchal Pueblo culture. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”Īt a time when academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen recognized its importance and dedicated her career to proving its merit. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. “Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. ![]()
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