| Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry Contributor(s): McGlennen, Molly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806144823 ISBN-13: 9780806144825 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 2013046769 |
| Series: American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 219 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to transcend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialogues across a spectrum of experiences and ideas. One of the first books to focus exclusively on Indigenous women's poetry, Creative Alliances fills a critical gap in the study of Native American literature. McGlennen, herself an Indigenous poet-critic, traces the meanings of gender and genre as they resonate beyond nationalist paradigms to forge transnational forms of both resistance and alliance among Indigenous women in the twenty-first century. McGlennen considers celebrated Native poets such as Kimberly Blaeser, Ester Belin, Diane Glancy, and Luci Tapahonso, but she also takes up lesser-known poets who circulate their work through social media, spoken-word events, and other "nonliterary" forums. Through this work McGlennen reveals how poetry becomes a tool for navigating through the dislocations of urban life, disenrollment, diaspora, migration, and queer identities. McGlennen's Native American Studies approach is inherently interdisciplinary. Combining creative and critical language, she demonstrates the way in which women use poetry not only to preserve and transfer Indigenous knowledge but also to speak to one another across colonial and tribal divisions. In the literary spaces of anthologies and collections and across social media and spoken-word events, Indigenous women poets are mapping cooperative alliances. In doing so, they are actively determining their relationship to their nations and to other Indigenous peoples in uncompromised and uncompromising ways. |
Contributor Bio(s): McGlennen, Molly: - Molly McGlennen is Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College in New York. She is the author of articles focused on Native American women's poetry and a collection of poetry, Like Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits. |
