Asegi stories : Cherokee queer and two-spirit memory / Qwo-Li Driskill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driskill, Qwo-Li, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Sexual behavior.

Cherokee Indians.

Sexual minorities--Identity.

Sexual minorities.

Indian sexual minorities--Social conditions.

Indian sexual minorities.

Gender identity.

Social conditions.

Sexual practices.

Sexuality.

Sexual identity.

Indian LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Summary:

"The book focuses on the concept of asegi stories--stories that revise and revive Cherokee cultural memories of same-sex relationships and non-binary gender systems. It is the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous queer/two-spirit critique, providing a Cherokee 2GLBTQ lens from which to interpret the past, understand our present, and imagine decolonial futures"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls

1. Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques : building alliances between native and queer studies

2. The queer lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes

3. Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality

4. Beautiful as the red rainbow : Cherokee two-spirits rebeautifying erotic memory

5. [Cherokee characters] (asegi ayetl) : Cherokee two-spirit people reimagining nation

Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

ISBN:

9780816530489

0816530483

OCLC:

929545622