Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, while also probing the limits of these political projects, especially with regard to gender. The social marginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduring consequences have remained largely neglected, even in Native organizing, as a pressing concern associated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural works discussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous feminist rethinking of Native politics that exposes the innate gendered dimensions of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist that Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women.
By:
Shari M. Huhndorf
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520400184
ISBN 10: 0520400186
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terminology Introduction: Native Lands 1 • Bodies of Land: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Dispossession 2 • “Mapping by Words”: Cartography in Tracks and Solar Storms 3 • Scenes from the Fringe: Gendered Violence and the Geographies of Indigenous Feminism 4 • Contested Landscapes: Kent Monkman, Zacharias Kunuk, and the Art of Indigenous History Conclusion: Bodies of Land, Redux Notes Works Cited Index
Shari M. Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her previous books include Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture.
