Research Catalog

Title

Roads, mobility, and violence in indigenous literature and art from North America / Deena Rymhs.

Author

Rymhs, Deena, 1975-

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

165 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America explores mobility, spatialized violence, and geographies of activism in a diverse archive of literary and visual art by Indigenous authors and artists. Building on Raymond Williams's observation that "traffic is not only a technique; it is a form of consciousness and a form of social relations," this book pulls into focus racial, sexual, and environmental violence localized around roads. Reading this archive of texts next to lived struggles over spatial justice, Rymhs argues that roads are spaces of complex signification. For many Indigenous communities, the road has not often been so open. Recent Indigenous writing and visual art explores this tension between mobility and confinement. Drawing primarily on the work of Marie Clements, Tomson Highway, Marilyn Dumont, Leanne Simpson, Richard Van Camp, Kent Monkman, and Louise Erdrich, this volume examines histories of uprooting and violence associated with roads. Along with exploring these fraught histories of mobility, this book emphasizes various ways in which Indigenous communities have transformed roads into sites of political resistance and social memory"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Canadian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism
• Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Roads in literature
• Literature and society > Canada > History > 20th century
• Indian art > Canada > 20th century
• Canadian literature
• Canadian literature > Indian authors
• Indian art
• Literature and society
• Canada

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index.

Contents

Mobility and its disenchantments in Marie Clements' The unnatural and accidental women and burning vision -- Idling no more: the road in Tomson Highway's The rez sisters -- Gridlock: mobility and subjection in Marilyn Dumont's Vancouver poems -- "The road is its own humiliation": Leanne Simpson's "Road Salt", "Leaks", "Ishpadinaa", and "How to steal a canoe" -- "I wanted the highway": Richard Van Camp's "Dogrib midnight runners" -- Kent Monkman's The Big Four as automobiography -- Across borders: Louise Erdrich's Books and islands in Ojibwe country.

Call Number

JFE 19-11457

ISBN

• 9780367149819
• 0367149818
• 9780429054266 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018048151

OCLC

1078961303

Author

Rymhs, Deena, 1975- author.

Title

Roads, mobility, and violence in indigenous literature and art from North America / Deena Rymhs.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-156) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Rymhs, Deena, 1975- Roads, mobility, and violence in indigenous literature and art from North America. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429054266 (DLC) 2018058949

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11457