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

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

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


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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.

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

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.

Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law Reviews

'After reading Suzack's finely crafted monograph, I am left with a sense of hope and gratitude for what indigenous feminist literature can teach us about the quest for justice, which often takes place far from the courthouse doors.' -- Sarah Deer * Transmotion Journal *
Suzack shows how Indigenous women writers can render the damage legal cases do to women understandable at an affective, personal, and family level. Although literature has often been regarded as a 'frill' from both mainstream and Indigenous perspectives, Suzack demonstrates how literature works as a form of social justice activism. -- Margery Fee * Canadian Literature *
Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law is rare in confronting taboos of gender-related issues facing indigenous women in the context of legal battles for tribal sovereignty. The book takes a powerful stance to emphasize that an indigenous feminist approach does not undermine but is essential to inclusive and successful sovereignty. For Suzack, the role of indigenous women's writing is a vital tool for imagining how this equitable sovereignty might be achieved. -- Maggie Ann Bowers, University of Portsmouth * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *

About Cheryl Suzack

Cheryl Suzack is an associate professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Batchewana First Nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction. Indigenous Women's Writing, Storytelling, and Law Chapter One. Gendering the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty: Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez and Ceremony Chapter Two. The Legal Silencing of Indigenous Women: Racine v. Woods and In Search of April Raintree Chapter Three. Colonial Governmentality and Gender Violence: State of Minnesota v. Zay Zah and The Antelope Wife Chapter Four. Land Claims, Identity Claims: Manypenny v. United States and Last Standing Woman Conclusion. For an Indigenous-Feminist Literary Criticism Works Cited

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CIN1442628588G
9781442628588
1442628588
Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law by Cheryl Suzack
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
2017-04-21
208
Short-listed for Canada Prize 2018 (Canada)
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