Our Fire Survives the Storm
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-2075-3 (ISBN)
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This Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition of Our Fire Survives the Storm is a thoroughly updated, nationhood-focused, twentieth-anniversary revision of Daniel Heath Justice’s influential study of Cherokee writing in English. Through politically astute and historically grounded readings of diverse texts by citizens of the Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Justice connects Cherokee literature to Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and collective futurity.
Guided by a reparative vision that directly contends with the outdated literary legacies of the book’s first edition, this revision confronts the ongoing harms of unsubstantiated and false Cherokee heritage claims on literary studies, replacing readings of primary texts by unverified claimants with those of Cherokee citizen writers. As Justice addresses issues of accountability, he engages with the past two decades of Indigenous scholarship, fully updating terminology, concepts, and scholarly resources. He expands and deepens the intellectual and historical context for Cherokee literary production introduced in the first edition, and he discusses Cherokee writing and community in the mid-twentieth century, the Cherokee Freedmen’s long struggle for justice, and the future of Cherokee nationhood.
Highlighting the work of authors who illustrate the transformative collective discourses of what it means to be Cherokee, Justice examines the richness of Cherokee literary expression through motifs of roots, removal, and nationhood in traditional stories, speeches, legal and governance documents, memoirs, short stories, novels, and plays. An invitation to reflective criticism, this new edition of Our Fire Survives the Storm is grounded in the belief that Indigenous nationhood is a necessary ethical response to the violence of the settler imaginary.
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Daniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation and professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of English Languages and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter and coeditor of Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (Minnesota, 2022).
Contents
Accountability and Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology, Revisited
Editorial Principles and Changes to the Text
Introduction: Cherokee Literary Studies, Citizenship, and Sovereignty
Part I. Roots
1. Peace, War, and Peoplehood: Grounding Cherokee Literatures
Part II. Removals
2. The Trail Where We Cried: Cherokee Dispossession and Defiance
3. "A Mighty Pulverizing Engine": Cherokee Nationhood through and beyond Allotment
Part III. Rekindling
4. Cherokee Literary Futures and Futurities
Afterword: The Work Stories Do in the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Indigenous Americas |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustration and 3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Minnesota |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5179-2075-2 / 1517920752 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5179-2075-3 / 9781517920753 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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