164115 20251121161351.0 doi 10.6035/clr.8124 sideral 146158 ART-2025-146158 eng Martínez Falquina, Silvia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8054-095X Indigenizing the YA Canon: The Heroine's Journey in Angeline Boulley's Firekeeper's Daughter 2025 Angeline Boulley’s stated intention when writing her debut novel Firekeeper’s Daughter (2021) was to indigenize the YA canon and offer positive role models for Native American young women, not properly represented in literature. The novel—about an eighteen-year-old Anishinaabe girl who sets out on a mission to help her community—creatively integrates traditional Indigenous stories like the Seventh Fire Prophecy with western detective fiction and coming-of-age narratives. Underscoring its activist motivation, the text denounces structural problems that affect Native Americans, including sexist and racist violence, and it recovers traditional rituals and values—most explicitly, relationality—to suit contemporary experience and needs. The article aims at making a contribution to the conceptualization of Indigenous Young Adult literature, thus filling a gap in scholarly work, and to bringattention to the literary and political value of contemporary Native women’s writing. Additionally, it delves into the definition of Indigenous resilience as context-specific, political and simultaneously individual and communal, thus adding to the field of resilience studies and Indigenous and decolonial studies. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/H03-23R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICIU/PID2021-124841NB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICIU/PID2023-149915NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-sa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 37 (2025), 111-126 Cult. leng. represent. Cultura, lenguaje y representación 1697-7750 306978 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/164115/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1309088 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/164115/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:164115 articulos driver 2025-11-21-14:26:49 ARTICLE