{"product_id":"indigenous-womens-writing-and-the-cheryl-suzack-9781442628588","title":"Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, \u003c\/i\u003e Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women's writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking within a transnational framework that compares multiple tribal national contexts and U.S.-Canadian settler colonialism, Suzack sheds light on how these Indigenous writers use storytelling to engage in social justice activism by contesting discriminatory tribal membership codes, critiquing the dispossession of Indigenous women from their children, challenging dehumanizing blood quantum codes, and protesting colonial forms of land dispossession. Each chapter in this volume aligns a court case with a literary text to show how literature contributes to self-determination struggles. Situated at the intersections of critical race, Indigenous feminist, and social justice theories, \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law \u003c\/i\u003ecrafts an Indigenous-feminist literary model in order to demonstrate how Indigenous women respond to the narrow vision of law by recuperating other relationships-to themselves, the land, the community, and the settler-nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cheryl Suzack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442628588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442628588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Cheryl Suzack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140733423871,"sku":"9781442628588","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7dde8db-24f0-46c9-8dac-ae458f8f733d.jpg?v=1726596873","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indigenous-womens-writing-and-the-cheryl-suzack-9781442628588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}