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25 - The Global Correspondence of Native American Literatures

from Part IV - Visions and Revisions: 21st-Century Prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Eric Cheyfitz
Edited by
Melanie Benson Taylor
Melanie Benson Taylor
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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Summary

U.S. Native American literature corresponds in the first instance with the anticolonial literatures of what used to be called the Third World. As such its periodization cannot be made to fit within the periodizations of U.S. American literature, either in terms of centuries or moments (modern/post-modern). More properly, one might begin to think of this literature, if one wants to periodize it at all, in terms of pre-and post-invasion. In this paper, I look at one instance of this correspondence of resistance in Acoma poet Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back: For the Sake of the Land/ For the Sake of the People and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief. I undertake this project both to reorient our thinking about the global place of U.S. Native American Literature and to think about the way this reorientation effects the hegemony of the current periodization of U.S. American literature.

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IndigenousPalestiniansNative Americansresistancelandnationalglobalcosmopolitaninternational.
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The Cambridge History of Native American Literature , pp. 465 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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