Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous LiteratureExamining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred to The Round House by Louise Erdrich, themes of retribution resound throughout the work of renowned Black and Indigenous women and queer authors. Revealing how the Black Power Movement and the American Indian Movement influenced literature from the 1960s onward, Murderous Feeling explores how these writers have employed revenge

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Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp

He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship

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Representation takes many forms

Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends

the sound of voices that are always chattering in your head

but there is no one she loves to hold her at night when she is afraid

A little boy wants a chance to shine on his own but discovers that being apart from his large and lively Native family isn’t necessarily better in this heartwarming and humorous picture book

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She discusses several elements of a New Green Economy and outlines the lessons we can take from activists outside the US and Canada