| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"We're Still Here": Wampanoag Timelines and the Stewardship of History -- Tribal Periodicals: Stewards of Oral Tradition and Tribal Community -- Novels of the Anthropocene: Stewards of Past, Present, and Future Relations -- Sovereign Poetics and Sustainable Publishing: Cheryl Savageau and Bowman Books Acting in Stewardship -- Indigenous New England Online: Network Sovereignty and Digital Stewardship |
| Summary |
"Sovereignty and Sustainability examines how Native American authors in what is now called New England have maintained their own long and complex literary histories, often entirely outside of mainstream archives, libraries, publishing houses, and other institutions usually associated with literary canon-building. Indigenous people in the Northeast began writing in English almost immediately after the arrival of colonial settlers, and they have continued to write in almost every form--histories, newsletters, novels, poetry, and electronic media. Over the centuries, Native American authors have used literature to assert tribal self-determination and protect traditional homelands and territories. Drawing on the fields of Native American and Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, and literary history, Siobhan Senier argues that sustainability cannot be thought of apart from Indigenous sovereignty and that tribal sovereignty depends on environmental and cultural sustainability. Senier offers the framework of literary stewardship to show how works of Indigenous literature maintain, recirculate, and adapt tribally specific approaches to community, land, and relations. Individual chapters discuss Wampanoag historiography; tribal newsletters and periodicals; novelists and poets Joseph Bruchac, John Christian Hopkins, Cheryl Savageau, and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel; and tribal literature on the web and in electronic archives. Pushing against the idea that Indians have vanished or are irrelevant today, Senier demonstrates to the contrary that regional Native literature is flourishing and looks to a dynamic future."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 30, 2020) |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- New England -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- New England -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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American literature
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American literature -- Indian authors
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Indian literature
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New England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781496219923 |
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1496219929 |
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9781496219930 |
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1496219937 |
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9781496219947 |
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1496219945 |
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