{"product_id":"the-web-of-differing-versions-reid-gzemez-9781517919757","title":"The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, \u003ci\u003eThe Web of Differing Versions\u003c\/i\u003e engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gómez makes \"The Indian Connection\" that Silko prophesizes--Land Back!--and offers a prescient response to Silko's enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Américas?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRealizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, Gómez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: BlackIndian, slaverycolonization, and writingtranslation. Gómez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty\/hózhǫ́.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko's \u003ci\u003eAlmanac\u003c\/i\u003e to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship. Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, \u003ci\u003eThe Web of Differing Versions\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reid Gómez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517919754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517919757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Reid Gómez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440620974335,"sku":"9781517919757","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95c381bb-f064-4962-9af2-be029bfb30b4.jpg?v=1777183673","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-web-of-differing-versions-reid-gzemez-9781517919757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}