NAISA: Literary Criticism
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MNNAISA23. Code expires July 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
ANTHROPOLOGY // CHILDREN'S LITERATURE // CINEMA AND MEDIA
EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // GEOGRAPHY
GLBT AND GENDER // HISTORY // LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES
LITERATURE AND POETRY // LITERARY CRITICISM // POLITICAL SCIENCE
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES // SOCIOLOGY // RELIGION
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The Effluent Eye Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making Rosemary J. Jolly 2023 Fall
- Why human rights don’t work
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The Colonial Construction of Indian Country Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law Eric Cheyfitz 2023 Fall
- A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America
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Natives against Nativism Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France Olivia C. Harrison 2023 Spring
- Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
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Making the Carry The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater Timothy Cochrane 2022 Fall
- An extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century
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The Silence of the Miskito Prince How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized Matt Cohen 2022 Fall
- Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies
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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring
- Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
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Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall
- A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall
- Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
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Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall
- Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order
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Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall
- Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean
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The Queerness of Native American Literature Lisa Tatonetti 2014 Fall
- A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall
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Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring
- Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
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Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui 2014 Spring
- Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity
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Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 2013 Spring
- Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies
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The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall
- Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing
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Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall
- Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies
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Creole Indigeneity Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson 2012 Fall
- How Creoles refashioned the techniques of settler power and used the principle of labor to become the Caribbean’s new “natives”
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The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring
- How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”
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Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 2012 Spring
- Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples
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The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall
- Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance
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Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. O’Brien 2010 Spring
- Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian
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X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring
- A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity
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Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History Daniel Heath Justice 2005 Fall
- Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition
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The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 2005 Fall
- Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing