Wasafiri 90: Native North American Literature and Literary Activism
Guest edited by Kimberly M Blaeser, Maggie Ann Bowers, and David Stirrup, Issue 90 considers literary activisim in the context of Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
Covering 'global environmental concerns, justice issues as well as location-specific or tribal nation-specific political disputes', the work featured includes fiction by Eric Gansworth, poetry from Heid E Erdrich, interviews with James Mackay and Jeremy Carnes, plus a work of graphic fiction from Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Scott B Henderson.
Contents
Editorial
Kimberly M Blaeser, Maggie Ann Bowers and David Stirrup
Fiction
Red Ants
Kimberly M Blaeser
Forbidden Fruit
Eric Gansworth
Graphic Fiction: Path to Reconciliation
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Scott B Henderson
Interviews
An Interview with Ralph Salisbury
James Mackay
Margaret Noodin in Conversation
Jeremy Carnes
Art
Places to Stand: Art after the American Indian Movement
Jessica L Horton
Articles
Anishinaabeskinuk: Writing Over Skins, Writing Over Imagi (natives)
Gordon Henry
‘We aren’t like dogs:’ Battling Blood Quantum
Jill Doerfler
Literary Activism and Violence Against Native North American Women: The Urgency for Sovereignty
Maggie Ann Bowers
Four Things you Likely Didn’t Know About NALS
LeAnne Howe
Poetry
Mino Miinikaan | Good Seeds | Ode' Miikana | Heart Line
Heid E Erdrich
Five Poems from La Lotería Series
James Thomas Stevens
During Your Lifetime | Ring of Fire, 2016 | Ode to Ineska’ Aga’ ga’ [Red Rice]
Craig Santos Perez
The Incident Light | All Night Long I am Narrowing | ‘whatever it can seize floating on the surface…’ | Dark Traffic | Georgic
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Reviews
Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence - Leanne Simpson
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition - Glen Coulthard
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States - Audra Simpson
The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement - The Kino-nda-niimi Collective
David Stirrup
LaRose - Louise Erdrich
Anne Jobin
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo
Tobias Wray
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature - Deborah L Madsen, ed
Padraig Kirwan
LETTERRS - Orlando White
Franklin K R Cline
Stories of Native Presence and Survivance in Commemoration of the 151st Anniversary of the Sand Creed Massacre - Billy J Stratton, ed
James MacKay
A Listening Wing: Native Literature from the Southeast - Marica Haag, ed
Janet McAdams
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption - John McLeod
Tabish Khair
Known and Strange Things - Teju Cole
Maya Caspari
What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature - Pheng Cheah
English as a Literature in Translation - Fiona J Doloughan
Dinesh Kafle
Acts of Angry Writing: On Citizenship and Orientalism in Postcolonial India - Vijayan Alessandra Marino
Prem Kumar
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging - Kim Anderson Sasser
Felicity Gee
Diasporic Marvellous Realism: History, Identity, and Memory in Caribbean Fiction - Maria Alonso Alonso
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance - Sencindiver Geeta Patel
Susan Yi
