The web of differing versions : where Africa ends and America begins / Reid Gómez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez, Reid, 1968- Author.

Series:

Indigenous Americas http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/b50fbb4d-4ad7-1a1f-c65c-5c91923c9285

Indigenous Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Almanac of the dead.

Silko, Leslie Marmon.

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948---Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xxii, 251 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2026]

Summary:

"A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gómez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders, offering a new grammar for a shared and violent world"-- Provided by publisher.

"A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation. A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gómez makes "The Indian Connection" that Silko prophesizes-Land Back!-and offers a prescient response to Silko's enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Américas? Realizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, Gómez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: Black/Indian, slavery/colonization, and writing/translation. Gómez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty/hózh́ǫ. A theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko's Almanac to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship. Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, The Web of Differing Versions offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: Always Together, Always Told Apart

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation and Orthography

Quick Start Guide

I Have a Story for That

Kill Them, They Are Mortal

In the Key of Almanac of the Dead: Five Hundred Year Map

The Journey of the Ancient Almanac: An Elaborate Story Structure

Garden Story: The Letter S

The Oscillator

In the Key of Tucson, Arizona

Oceanstory: Landsea

One of Us

Black Lives, Red Earth, White Lies

Hustle Monday Disco: Week 20

Hustle Monday Disco: Week 14

Slavery Broadcast: There Are No White People

In the Key of the Indian Connection

Slavery Broadcast: A Garden Story

Stop Trying to Tell Me Things and Pull

Garden Story: The Great Mystery

Slavery Broadcast: The Texture of Hate

Slavery Broadcast: The Gunadeeyah Clan

Slavery Broadcast: We All Know Who We Are

Slavery Broadcast: 1804 Complex Time Indigenous Revolt

In the Key of Prophecy

A Geronimo Story, a Long Time Ago

Merciless Indian Savages

Garden Story: DNA of Earth and Sky

The House of Natasha Diggs

The Key to the Future: Get Good on Purpose

Urban Legend

Paradise

Ghost Dance: Angelita de La Noche

Coda: Where Africa Ends and America Begins

I Am Telling: A Neoslave Escape Story

Notes

Bibliography

Discography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Gómez, Reid, 1968- Web of differing versions

ISBN:

9781517919757

1517919754

9781517919740

1517919746

OCLC:

1551294055