Islands of Decolonial Love
Title | Islands of Decolonial Love PDF eBook |
Author | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson |
Publisher | Arp Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Canadian fiction |
ISBN | 9781894037884 |
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.
A Short History of the Blockade
Title | A Short History of the Blockade PDF eBook |
Author | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson |
Publisher | University of Alberta |
Pages | 89 |
Release | 2021-02-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1772125385 |
Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg storytelling to deepen our understanding of Indigenous resistance.
Movements of Interweaving
Title | Movements of Interweaving PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriele Brandstetter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1351128442 |
Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, dance, and corporeality. Focusing on dance performances as well as on scenarios of cultural movements on a global scale, it not only challenges the concept of intercultural dance performances, but through its innovative approach also calls attention to the specific qualities of "interweaving" as a form of movement itself. Divided into four sections, this volume features an international team of scholars together developing a new critical perspective on the cultural practices of movement, travel and migration in and beyond dance.
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy
Title | Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2022-08-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978816391 |
Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. This book covers diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging ancestors and grandparents in one’s mothering, how historical trauma and violence plague the past, and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy is how culture and place impacts mothering (specifically, if Indigenous mothers are not in their traditional homelands as they raise their children), how academia impacts mothering, how mothering impacts scholarship, and how to negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and one’s role in the academy.
Erotic Cartographies
Title | Erotic Cartographies PDF eBook |
Author | Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2022-01-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978821360 |
Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.
This Accident of Being Lost
Title | This Accident of Being Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 2017-04-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1487001290 |
A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
In Good Relation
Title | In Good Relation PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Nickel |
Publisher | Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0887558526 |
Over the past thirty years, a strong canon of Indigenous feminist literature has addressed how Indigenous women are uniquely and dually affected by colonialism and patriarchy. Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of “generations,” this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women.