Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law / Cheryl Suzack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suzack, Cheryl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke. Working within a transnational framework that compares multiple tribal national contexts and U.S.-Canadian settler colonialism, Suzack sheds light on how these Indigenous writers use storytelling to engage in social justice activism by contesting discriminatory tribal membership codes, critiquing the dispossession of Indigenous women from their children, challenging dehumanizing blood quantum codes, and protesting colonial forms of land dispossession. Each chapter in this volume aligns a court case with a literary text to show how literature contributes to self-determination struggles. Situated at the intersections of critical race, Indigenous feminist, and social justice theories, Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law crafts an Indigenous-feminist literary model in order to demonstrate how Indigenous women respond to the narrow vision of law by recuperating other relationships–to themselves, the land, the community, and the settler-nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Indigenous Women’s Writing, Storytelling, and Law

Gendering the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty: Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez (1978) and Ceremony (1977)

The Legal Silencing of Indigenous Women: Racine v. Woods (1983) and In Search of April Raintree (1983)

Colonial Governmentality and Gender Violence: State of Minnesota v. Zay Zah (1977) and The Antelope Wife (1998)

Land Claims, Identity Claims: Manypenny v. United States (1991) and Last Standing Woman (1997)

Conclusion: For an Indigenous-Feminist Literary Criticism

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2432-9

1-4426-2431-0

OCLC:

1054880296