Indigenous Futures beyond the Sovereignty Debate

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27 - Indigenous Futures beyond the Sovereignty Debate

from Part IV - Visions and Revisions: 21st-Century Prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020

Jodi A. Byrd

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Melanie Benson Taylor

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Melanie Benson Taylor: Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

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In charting how sovereignty has been defined in Indigenous literary studies, this chapter outlines some of the recent debates around the political and cultural meanings of the term. Through close readings of recent poems by Layli Long Soldier and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, this chapter further argues that resurgent Indigenous futures depend upon relationalities that resist state models of political sovereignty.

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sovereignty Indigenous futures dispossession, antiblackness resurgence

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Information: The Cambridge History of Native American Literature , pp. 501 - 518

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699419.028 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2020

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