Research Catalog

Title

Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land / Toni Jensen.

Author

Jensen, Toni

Publication

• New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

294 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. "The Worry Line" explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. "At the Workshop" focuses on her graduate school years, during which a classmate repeatedly wrote stories in which he killed thinly veiled versions of her. In "Women in the Fracklands," Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access pipeline protests, as well as the peril faced by women, in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history--as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates as a Native American woman. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one's country is not the same as surviving one's country."--

Alternative Title

Memoir of survival on stolen land

Subject

• Jensen, Toni
• Métis women > North Dakota > Biography
• Indian women activists > North Dakota > Biography
• Indian women > Crimes against > North Dakota
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
• Indian women activists
• Indian women > Crimes against
• Métis women
• North Dakota

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Contents

Women in the Fracklands -- Songs Without Words -- The Invented Histories of Domestic Birds -- Give and Go -- Carry -- Route -- Dog Days -- In the Neighborhood -- The Worry Line -- Fracture and Song -- How to Make a Trafficked Girl -- City Beautiful -- Chicken -- Pass -- Contagion -- Ghost Logic.

Call Number

JFD 21-2351

ISBN

• 9781984821188
• 1984821180

LCCN

2020015793

OCLC

1130765815

Author

Jensen, Toni, author.

Title

Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land / Toni Jensen.

Publisher

New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Jensen, Toni. Carry. New York : Ballantine Group, [2020] 9781984821195 (DLC) 2020015794

Research Call Number

JFD 21-2351