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A Son of the Forest
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American Revolution and Indigenous communities
An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
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Black and Indigenous Ecologies
Black and Indigenous Worldmaking
Brothertown
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Environmental Studies
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Eulogy on King Philip
gifted earth
Haitian Revolution and the African Diaspora
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts
Indian Removal Act
Mary Prince
Mashantucket Pequot Nation
Mohegan Nation
Robert Wedderburn
Samson Occom
Sermon on the Execution of Moses Paul
The Axe Laid to the Root
The History of Mary Prince
The Horrors of Slavery
Wampanoag Mashpee Nation
William Apess
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- ISBN 9781469677910
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2024
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places—whether real or imagined—and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works written in a period engulfed by the extraordinary political and social upheavals of the Age of Revolution and Indian Removal, and these texts—which include not only sermons, life writing, and periodicals but also descriptions of embodied and oral knowledge, as well as material objects—register defiance to land removal and other forms of violence.
In studying writers of color during this era, Johnson probes the histories of their lived environment and of the earth itself—its limits, its finite resources, and its metaphoric mortality—in a way that offers new insights on what it means to imagine sustainable connections to the ground on which we walk.
In studying writers of color during this era, Johnson probes the histories of their lived environment and of the earth itself—its limits, its finite resources, and its metaphoric mortality—in a way that offers new insights on what it means to imagine sustainable connections to the ground on which we walk.
Shelby Johnson is assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University.
