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Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within
current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions?
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes
that a dynamic new line of inquiry -- Indigenous feminism -- is
necessary to truly engage with the crucial issues of cultural
identity, nationalism, and decolonization particular to Indigenous
contexts. Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture,
this wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of
Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the
relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an
emerging Indigenous feminist project. The questions at the heart of
these essays -- What is at stake in conceptualizing Indigenous
feminism? How does feminism relate to Indigenous claims to land and
sovereignty? What lessons can we learn from the past? How do
Indigenous women engage ongoing violence and social and political
marginalization? -- cross disciplinary, national, academic, and
activist boundaries to explore deeply the unique political and
social positions of Indigenous women. A vital and sophisticated
discussion that will change the way we think about modern feminism,
Indigenous Women and Feminism will be invaluable to scholars,
activists, artists, community organizers, and those concerned with
Indigenous and feminist issues at home and abroad.
In Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl
Suzack explores Indigenous women's writing in the post-civil rights
period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie
Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and
Winona LaDuke. Working within a transnational framework that
compares multiple tribal national contexts and U.S.-Canadian
settler colonialism, Suzack sheds light on how these Indigenous
writers use storytelling to engage in social justice activism by
contesting discriminatory tribal membership codes, critiquing the
dispossession of Indigenous women from their children, challenging
dehumanizing blood quantum codes, and protesting colonial forms of
land dispossession. Each chapter in this volume aligns a court case
with a literary text to show how literature contributes to
self-determination struggles. Situated at the intersections of
critical race, Indigenous feminist, and social justice theories,
Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law crafts an
Indigenous-feminist literary model in order to demonstrate how
Indigenous women respond to the narrow vision of law by
recuperating other relationships-to themselves, the land, the
community, and the settler-nation.
This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native
critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes
contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual
literary representation.Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of
Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language;
Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century
Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol
Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can
include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howe creates
a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic
authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justice takes
on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently
than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morgan
uncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the
subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppolo advocates an
intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for
criticism. Cheryl Suzack situates feminist theories within Native
culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across
Indian Country; Christopher B. Teuton organizes Native literary
criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean
Teuton opens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons
with Native inmates; Robert Warrior wants literary analysis to
consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womack introduces
the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism
published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with
an essay on theorizing experience. Reasoning Together proposes
nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary
criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating
Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It
is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses
- and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of
Native literature.
Can the specific concerns of Indigenous women be addressed within
current mainstream feminist and post-colonial discussions?
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture proposes
that a dynamic new line of inquiry -- Indigenous feminism -- is
necessary to truly engage with the crucial issues of cultural
identity, nationalism, and decolonization particular to Indigenous
contexts. Through the lenses of politics, activism, and culture,
this wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of
Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the
relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an
emerging Indigenous feminist project. The questions at the heart of
these essays -- What is at stake in conceptualizing Indigenous
feminism? How does feminism relate to Indigenous claims to land and
sovereignty? What lessons can we learn from the past? How do
Indigenous women engage ongoing violence and social and political
marginalization -- cross disciplinary, national, academic, and
activist boundaries to explore deeply the unique political and
social positions of Indigenous women. A vital and sophisticated
discussion that will change the way we think about modern feminism,
Indigenous Women and Feminism will be invaluable to scholars,
activists, artists, community organizers, and those concerned with
Indigenous and feminist issues at home and abroad.
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