| Abstract (about 50 words): | Native American women struggle to reassert their strong sense of self by portraying the components of Native American identity in their works and deconstructing the misconceptions related to Native Americans. Linda Hogan’s memoir, The Woman Who Watches Over the World (2001) stands as an evidence of Native American women’s powerful self that is deeply rooted in tribal traditions and perspectives, as she herself states: “[The Chickasaw reservation] world was my foundation […]. It became my life, my identity as a woman” (Hogan 21). |