Asegi Stories : Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory / Qwo-Li Driskill.

  • Driskill, Qwo-Li
Date:
2016
  • Books

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Description

"The book focuses on the concept of asegi stories--stories that revise and revive Cherokee cultural memories of same-sex relationships and non-binary gender systems. It is the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous queer/two-spirit critique, providing a Cherokee 2GLBTQ lens from which to interpret the past, understand our present, and imagine decolonial futures"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

Physical description

xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls -- Chapter 1. Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques : building alliances between native and queer studies -- Chapter 2. The queer lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes -- Chapter 3. Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality -- Chapter 4. Beautiful as the red rainbow : Cherokee two-spirits rebeautifying erotic memory -- Chapter 5. [Cherokee characters] (asegi ayetl) : Cherokee two-spirit people reimagining nation -- Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TW.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780816530489
  • 0816530483