Stick Houses

Stories

Matthew L.M. Fletcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

132 Seiten

2025
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-523-3 (ISBN)

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As researchers tried to prompt his mother to say that her ancestors lived in wigwams or teepees, Matthew L. M. Fletcher’s mother insisted her ancestors lived in stick houses. From the opening lines of Fletcher’s story collection, he sets the scene to disrupt narrative stereotypes and expectations about how Indigenous people are perceived. He provides insight into the complex world in which Anishinaabe people live, stripped of the ownership of much of their homeland. In Stick Houses, Fletcher explores what this loss of place has meant to the Anishinaabe people of Michigan. It explores how they must leave and come back. There is dispossession and separation, but there is also reunion and restoration.
These stories explore themes of home and belonging, and how Native people are not just one thing; they are both Native and non-Native blood. Some are deeply connected to their Anishinaabe heritage, while others have suffered a complete loss of their culture. Many Native people are conflicted about their background and suffer intergenerational trauma. These stories originate in dynamic environments and situations such as airports, college, Indian lawyering, and high school baseball games.

Matthew L. M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law and professor of American culture at the University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating, which has won several independent publisher awards. He has also published stories in the graphic story collections Trickster (10th anniversary edition) and A Howl. Fletcher is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Fletcher graduated from the University of Michigan. He is married to Wenona Singel, a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and they have two sons, Owen and Emmett.

Contents
Preface
Truck Stop
Knuckle-Curve
Badder Road
Ten-Year Visit
The Village by the Sea
Gram
Boss Gorton
Sarah’s Sister
The Chain Gangs
The Sons of Leopold
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	American Indian Studies
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61186-523-9 / 1611865239
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-523-3 / 9781611865233
Zustand	Neuware