Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous women's writing and the cultural study of law / Cheryl Suzack.

Author

Suzack, Cheryl

Publication

• Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

x, 192 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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."--

Subject

• American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism
• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Indian women > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Law and literature > United States
• Indians in literature
• Women in literature
• Social justice in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Indigenous women's writing, storytelling, and law -- Gendering the politics of tribal sovereignty : Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez (1987) and Ceremony (1977) -- The legal silencing of indigenous women : Racine v. Woods (1983) and In search of April Raintree (1983) -- Colonial governmentality and gender violence : State of Minnesota v. Zay Zah (1977) and The antelope wife (1998) -- Land claims, identity claims : Manypenny v. United States (1991) and Last women standing (1997) -- Conclusion: For an indigenous-feminist literary criticism.

Call Number

JFE 17-6667

ISBN

• 9781442650671
• 1442650672
• 9781442628588
• 1442628588

OCLC

960834347

Author

Suzack, Cheryl, author.

Title

Indigenous women's writing and the cultural study of law / Cheryl Suzack.

Publisher

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6667