{"product_id":"indigenous-womens-writing-and-the-cultural-study-of-law-paperback-softback-9781442628588","title":"Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442628588","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCheryl Suzack (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442628588\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 April 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 1.3 cm, 0.32 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;After reading Suzack\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Sarah Deer (\u003cem\u003eTransmotion Journal\u003c\/em\u003e) \"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 (\u003cem\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIndigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u0026amp;#x2019;s writing is a vital tool for imagining how this equitable sovereignty might be achieved.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Maggie Ann Bowers, University of Portsmouth (\u003cem\u003eTulsa Studies in Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Literature\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law,\u003c\/i\u003e Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women\u0026amp;#x2019;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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking 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, \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law \u003c\/i\u003ecrafts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Indigenous Women\u0026amp;#x2019;s Writing, Storytelling, and Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One. Gendering the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty: \u003ci\u003eSanta Clara Pueblo v. Martinez\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two. The Legal Silencing of Indigenous Women: \u003ci\u003eRacine v. Woods \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIn Search of April Raintree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three. Colonial Governmentality and Gender Violence: \u003ci\u003eState of Minnesota v. Zay Zah \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Antelope Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four. Land Claims, Identity Claims: \u003ci\u003eManypenny v. United States\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLast Standing Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion. For an Indigenous-Feminist Literary Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52588162318616,"sku":"9781442628588","price":20.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/indigenous-womens-writing-and-the-cultural-study-of-law-paperback-softback-9781442628588","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}