Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster. By examining a range of diverse materials, including the writings of canonical Native American writers such as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook, this work brings new focus to analyzing how indigenous communities and authors relate to land, while also exploring broader connections to literary criticism, environmental history and justice, ecocriticism, feminist studies, and new media studies.
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Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster. By examining a range of diverse materials, including the writings of canonical Native American writers such as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook, this work brings new focus to analyzing how indigenous communities and authors relate to land, while also exploring broader connections to literary criticism, environmental history and justice, ecocriticism, feminist studies, and new media studies.
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Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence

Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence

by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald
Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
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Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence

by Stephanie J. Fitzgerald

Overview

“What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?” Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster. By examining a range of diverse materials, including the writings of canonical Native American writers such as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook, this work brings new focus to analyzing how indigenous communities and authors relate to land, while also exploring broader connections to literary criticism, environmental history and justice, ecocriticism, feminist studies, and new media studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826355584
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 03/15/2015
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 178
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Stephanie J. Fitzgerald is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the coeditor of Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Toward a Land Narrative 1

Askîy/Land

Chapter 1 Removals and Long Walks 25

Chapter 2 "This Scrap of Earth": Louise Erdrich, Environmentalism, and the Postallotment Reservation 45

Nîpîy/Water

Chapter 3 "An Ancient Pact, Now Broken": Activism and Environmental Justice in Solar Storms and From the River's Edge 69

Chapter 4 Climate Change as Indigenous Dispossession for the Twenty-First Century: The United Houma Nation of Louisiana and the Alaska Native Villages of Kivalina and Shishmaref 89

Conclusion: "Idle No More". First Nations Women and Environmental Struggles 111

Notes 123

Bibliography 145

Index 161

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