Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth; Harjo, Joy; Bird, Gloria W.

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“…I feel the sandpapering this language once was and re-watch as my body smoothes the rough edges as the words journey through me. (Maracle 2013, 19) When I read Maracle's words, I am reminded of two powerful anthologies: A Gathering of Spirit (Brant 1988), and Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (Harjo and Bird 1998). Indeed, as Brant articulated, "writing done with a community consciousness" (Brant 1988, 19) has led to an Indigenous literary movement that extends Indigenous philosophies with contemporary realities to transform feminist theorizing.…”

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Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle

Brant

2023

Hypatia

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This article maps out a pedagogical juncture of bell hooks's feminist theory of homeplace (hooks 2007) and Indigenous maternal pedagogies as liberatory praxis through a journey with Indigenous women's literatures. I position this work as a response to the call to transform feminist theorizing through Indigenous philosophies as articulated in a recent Hypatia special issue (Bardwell-Jones and McLaren 2020, 2). The article documents hooks's theory of homeplace as a space of resistance and renewal and shares insights into Indigenous experiences of homeplace within historical and contemporary contexts of genocide, and the ongoing racialized and sexualized violence on Turtle Island. I discuss finding homeplace in Indigenous literatures by sharing a genealogy of Indigenous women's literatures as theorizing tools for engaging social change within academic spaces. To bring this work full circle, I offer Indigenous perspectives of homeplace, and the lessons gleaned from Indigenous women's literatures, as intentional work toward imagining Indigenous futurities. Indeed, connecting this work with liberatory pedagogical praxis imagines a site to establish homeplace in academic settings and empower students to engage in the kind of work that fosters and calls for safer homes, schools, and communities.

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Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle

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2023

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“…11 Katsi Cook writes that environmental and reproductive justice are defined by women' s roles in processes of creation, linking through water the universe, women, the fetus, and stories: "Woman is the first environment; she is an original instruction." 12 Cook instructs us to be mindful and respectful of water' s direction by never facing against it. 13 In Lenape stories, at the places where water and trees meet, spirit beings move between worlds.…”

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Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms

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2019

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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This article intends an orientation of readers to critical Indigenous feminist politics through a theorizing of and engagement with water as an analytic. To do so, it focuses on two solidifications of Indigenous feminist politics in the United States and Canada. The first concerns theory and method: What informs and distinguishes the articulation of a critical Indigenous feminist politics, with/from other feminisms? What difference does water make within that articulation? The second involves the junctures of the Flint water crisis and the #NODAPL action at Standing Rock: How did water bring people together, not just there but around the world? How does the coming together matter? The article presumes that gender is a core, constitutive aspect of Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and solidarity. It argues that water rests with women and women-identified individuals, and their social and cultural responsibilities to, and in, multiple kinds of relationships, which include other-than-human beings and involve other-than-seen realities.

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Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America

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Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle

Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle

Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms

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