Introduction : place-worlds in contemporary Native American literature / Anna M. Brígido-Corachán -- Grounded relationality : a reading of contemporary Anishinaabe literature (Gordon Henry, Leanne Simpson, Louise Erdrich) / Silvia Martínez-Falquina -- Spider's embrace : Louis Owen's web of identities in Dark River / David L. Moore -- Cross-worlds : the sight and sound of James Welch / A. Robert Lee -- Slender vial of DNA / For sale : dismantling genomic articulations of Indigeneity in the poetry of Heid E. Erdrich / Joanna Ziarkowska -- A futurism that sees no future: recognition in Ayi Kwei Armah, James Welch, and Corwin Clairmont / Kathryn W. Shanley -- Atonement and forgiveness as reparatory justice in Louise Erdrich's LaRose and Fernando Aramburu's Homeland / Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz -- Relational bodies in motion : a trans-Indigenous reading of Ofelia Zepeda and Irma Pineda's place-based poetry / Anna M. Brígido-Corachán -- A prayer from the galaxy of the soul : Simon J. Ortiz's poetry of continuance / Ewelina Bańka.
Summary:
"Writing from a vantage point that respects tribal specificities and Indigenous sovereignty, the essays in this volume consider the relational place-worlds crafted by the Native American authors Louise Erdrich, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gordon Henry Jr., Louis Owens, James Welch, Heid E. Erdrich, Ofelia Zepeda, and Simon J. Ortiz. Each is set in conversation with kindred writers and larger sociopolitical debates in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. The shared aim is to decolonize academic methodologies and disciplines across the Atlantic by tracing the creative, spiritual, and intellectual networks that Native writers have established with other communities at home and around the world. Key issues to arise include Native American/Indigenous theories and literary practices that center on relationality, the planetary turn, grounded normativity, trans-Indigeneity, transborder identities, movement, journeying, migration, multilingualism, genomic research, futurity, ecology, and justice. "-- Provided by publisher.
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