Native Women and Land
Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence
University of New Mexico Press · Print & ebook · December 15, 2015
What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?
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- Who it’s for
- Fitzgerald studies how literature and social media frame Native women's experiences of displacement.
- Themes
- Native women's writing on displacement, Memory and politics of dispossession, Forced relocation and disaster
- Genres
- Indigenous Lit Crit, Native American Studies, Women's Studies
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What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed? Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
Native Women's Texts
Fitzgerald studies how literature and social media frame Native women's experiences of displacement.
Come here for
- Literature and social media by Native women
- Writing about forced relocation and environmental disaster
Expect
- Attention to memory, politics, and lived experience
- A study of displacement and resurgence
Where it sits
| Indigenous Lit Crit | 62% |
|---|---|
| Native American Studies | 28% |
| Women's Studies | 25% |
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Publisher categories
- Indigenous Lit Crit
- Native American Studies
- Authors
- Stephanie J. Fitzgerald
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Published
- December 15, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Native women's writing on displacement · Memory and politics of dispossession · Forced relocation and disaster
- Reading lane
- Indigenous Lit Crit