Description
As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous Queer or Two-Spirit critique, Asegi Stories examines gender and sexuality in Cherokee cultural memory, how they shape the present, and how they can influence the future.
The theoretical and methodological underpinnings of Asegi Stories derive from activist, artistic, and intellectual genealogies, referred to as "dissent lines" by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Driskill intertwines Cherokee and other Indigenous traditions, women of color feminisms, grassroots activisms, queer and Trans studies and politics, rhetoric, Native studies, and decolonial politics. Drawing from oral histories and archival documents in order to articulate Cherokee-centered Two-Spirit critiques, Driskill contributes to the larger intertribal movements for social justice.
Product Details
| Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
| Publish Date | April 07, 2016 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780816530489 |
| Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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Reviews
"An integral tool for teaching decolonial theory/pedagogy or furthering a discussion of cultural rhetorics and queer theory to show the ways that history has always been told by the victors, not the oppressors."--American Indian Quarterly
"Based in part on research and in part on creative reworking of culture, Driskill's monograph presents both a valuable critical source for Two-Spirit histories and theories and a model for a creative praxis that productively envisions the asegi space of the future."--Studies in American Indian Literature
"Driskill queers the practice of memory and history. S/he works as an exile within colonial logics, creating origin stories that find their significance in the present."--Anabaptist Witness
"As Driskill presents a retelling and reimagining of the Cherokee Two-Spirit experience, both the past and the future are reworked and reenvisioned."--American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"One of the most important new works of Queer Indigenous Studies scholarship."--Transmotion
"Places the study of sexuality and Two-Spirit strategies for continuance at the heart of decolonial struggles and decolonial intellectual projects that bridge grassroots and academic scholarship."--Maylei Blackwell, author of ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
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