LeAnne Howe’s Choctalking on Other Realities (2013) is an eclectic text, described as “a combination of memoir, tragedy, absurdist fiction, and marvelous realism” (Howe, “Why I Write”). As it is based on the author’s experience of travel, I will read it as a travel narrative. While focusing on Howe’s travels out of the United States, I will underline the aspects in which her traveling subject differs from traditional travel narratives, which are usually characterized by an endeavor in an ethnographic, exploratory, or scientific presentation of the host. While doing so, I will point to this book’s textual involvement in pushing the boundaries of travel writing and, along with it, of indigenous activism. To this aim, I will discuss Howe’s concept of tribalography, as a tool for understanding and interpreting self, home, and the other. While stemming from one culture, tribalography is oriented towards a transnational understanding and the role of an artist on a global level. Howe’s text will be read with the background of recent Native American and women studies, travel writing theory, and postcolonial insights.

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为互惠而旅行：LeAnne Howe 对其他现实的喋喋不休

LeAnne Howe 的《Choctalking on Other Realities》（2013 年）是一部不拘一格的文本，被描述为“回忆录、悲剧、荒诞小说和奇妙现实主义的结合”（Howe，“我为什么写作”）。由于它是根据作者的旅行经历，我将其作为旅行叙事来阅读。在关注 Howe 离开美国的旅行时，我将强调她的旅行主题与传统旅行叙事不同的方面，传统旅行叙事通常以对主人的人种学、探索性或科学呈现的努力为特征。在这样做的同时，我将指出这本书在推动旅行写作的界限方面的文字参与，以及随之而来的本土激进主义。为此，我将讨论豪的部落学概念，作为理解和解释自我、家庭和他者的工具。虽然起源于一种文化，但部落志面向的是跨国理解和艺术家在全球范围内的作用。Howe 的文本将在最近的美洲原住民和妇女研究、旅行写作理论和后殖民见解的背景下阅读。