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Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America

Rymhs, Deena

2019,2018

Overview

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, the book emphasizes various ways in which Indigenous communities have transformed roads into sites of political resistance and social memory.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group,Taylor & Francis
• Subject: 20th Century Literature / activism / American & Canadian Literature / artists / authors / Canadian literature / confinement / environmental / environmental violence / Indian art / Indian art-Canada-20th century / indigenous / indigenous communities / justice / Kent Monkman / Leanne Simpson / literature / Literature & Culture / Literature and society / Louise Erdrich / Marie Clements / Marilyn Dumont / mobility / North America / racial / raods / Richard Van Camp / Roads in literature / sexual / spatial / spatial justice / Tomson Highway / traffic / violence / visual art
• ISBN: 9780367149819, 0367149818, 9780367663087, 0367663082