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  1. Roads, mobility, and violence in indigenous literature and art from North America
    Author: Rymhs, Deena
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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  2. Roads, mobility, and violence in indigenous literature and art from North America
    Author: Rymhs, Deena
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America explores mobility, spatialized violence, and geographies of activism in a diverse archive of literary and visual art by Indigenous authors and artists. Building on... more

     

    "Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America explores mobility, spatialized violence, and geographies of activism in a diverse archive of literary and visual art by Indigenous authors and artists. Building on Raymond Williams's observation that "traffic is not only a technique; it is a form of consciousness and a form of social relations," this book pulls into focus racial, sexual, and environmental violence localized around roads. Reading this archive of texts next to lived struggles over spatial justice, Rymhs argues that roads are spaces of complex signification. For many Indigenous communities, the road has not often been so open. Recent Indigenous writing and visual art explores this tension between mobility and confinement. Drawing primarily on the work of Marie Clements, Tomson Highway, Marilyn Dumont, Leanne Simpson, Richard Van Camp, Kent Monkman, and Louise Erdrich, this volume examines histories of uprooting and violence associated with roads. Along with exploring these fraught histories of mobility, this book emphasizes various ways in which Indigenous communities have transformed roads into sites of political resistance and social memory"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0429054262; 9780429054266
    Series: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
    Subjects: Canadian literature / Indian authors / History and criticism; Canadian literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Roads in literature; Literature and society / Canada / History / 20th century; Indian art / Canada / 20th century
    Scope: 1 online resource (165 pages), illustrations
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