Earthworks Rising

Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts

Chadwick Allen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2022
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1232-1 (ISBN)

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A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices

Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. Alongside twentieth- and twenty-first-century Native writers, artists, and intellectuals, Allen rebuts colonial discourses and examines the multiple ways these remarkable structures continue to hold ancient knowledge and make new meaning-in the present and for the future.

Earthworks Rising is organized to align with key functional categories for mounds (effigies, platforms, and burials) and with key concepts within mound-building cultures. From the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio to the mound metropolis Cahokia in Illinois to the generative Mother Mound in Mississippi, Allen takes readers deep into some of the most renowned earthworks. He draws on the insights of poets Allison Hedge Coke and Margaret Noodin, novelists LeAnne Howe and Phillip Carroll Morgan, and artists Monique Mojica and Alyssa Hinton, weaving in a personal history of earthwork encounters and productive conversation with fellow researchers.

Spanning literature, art, performance, and built environments, Earthworks Rising engages Indigenous mounds as forms of “land-writing” and as conduits for connections across worlds and generations. Clear and compelling, it provokes greater understanding of the remarkable accomplishments of North America’s diverse mound-building cultures over thousands of years and brings attention to new earthworks rising in the twenty-first century.

Chadwick Allen is professor of English and adjunct professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington. He is author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts and Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (Minnesota, 2012).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Indigenous Earthworks within (and without) the White Imaginary

Part I. Effigies // Crossing Worlds // Above and Below

1. Serpent Sublime, Serpent Subliminal

2. River Revere

Coda 1: Earth Bodies in Motion

Part II. Platforms // Networking Systems // Cardinal Directions

3. Walking the Mounds

Coda 2: Walking the Mounds at Aztalan

Part III. Burials // Gathering Generations // Center

4. Wombed Hollows, Sacred Trees

5. Secured Vaults

Coda 3: Trans-worlds Performance

Conclusion: Earthworks Uprising

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Indigenous Americas
Zusatzinfo	34 b&w illustrations, 20 color plates
Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5179-1232-6 / 1517912326
ISBN-13	978-1-5179-1232-1 / 9781517912321
Zustand	Neuware