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Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound
and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and
more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure
that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the
complicit discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion,
medicine, science and technology. Almanac's exploration of multiple
forms of dispossession and resistance is most fully embodied in the
two Armies of Justice, who are devoted to overturning oppression in
all forms and to the restoration of social and economic justice.
Reading Almanac in the light of the global economic recession of
2008, this study assesses the ways in which Almanac's vision of
oppressive capitalism continues to have absolute relevance. Perhaps
most importantly, this study provides a groundbreaking reading of
Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies
with recent international popular social justice activism such as
the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the
Indigenous Idle No More movement.
Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound
and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and
more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure
that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the
complicit discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion,
medicine, science and technology. Almanac's exploration of multiple
forms of dispossession and resistance is most fully embodied in the
two Armies of Justice, who are devoted to overturning oppression in
all forms and to the restoration of social and economic justice.
Reading Almanac in the light of the global economic recession of
2008, this study assesses the ways in which Almanac's vision of
oppressive capitalism continues to have absolute relevance. Perhaps
most importantly, this study provides a groundbreaking reading of
Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies
with recent international popular social justice activism such as
the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the
Indigenous Idle No More movement.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays, by both Natives and
non-Natives, explores presentations and representations of
indigenous bodies in historical and contemporary contexts. Recent
decades have seen a wealth of scholarship on the body in a wide
range of disciplines. "Indigenous Bodies" extends this scholarship
in exciting new ways, bringing together the disciplinary expertise
of Native studies scholars from around the world. The book is
particularly concerned with the Native body as a site of persistent
fascination, colonial oppression, and indigenous agency, along with
the endurance of these legacies within Native communities. At the
core of this collection lies a dual commitment to exposing numerous
and diverse disempowerments of indigenous peoples, and to
recognizing the many ways in which these same people retained
and/or reclaimed agency. Issues of reviewing, relocating, and
reclaiming bodies are examined in the chapters, which are paired to
bring to light juxtapositions and connections and further the
transnational development of indigenous studies.
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