scholarly journals Indian trouble

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Central America ◽  
21St Century ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Professional Writers

This exploratory essay thinks through late-20th and early 21st century autobiographical novels and storytelling by indigenous migrants from Mexico and Central America. The think-piece examines the idea of “archiving selves” as well as the literary sensibilities of Manuel Olmos, Alma Murrieta, and Lamberto Roque Hernández. Focusing on how these non-professional writers document their border crossings and recount their uprooted lives in California, this essay casts new questions on indigenous Mesoamerican futurities that intersect—and depart from—Latino/a Studies and Native American Studies. It examines how a new social and cultural formation—indigenous-cum-migrant—is unfolding and revealing contemporary configurations on language and ethnic belonging.

Performing Ri(gh)t(e)s: (W)Riting the Native (In and Out of) Ceremony

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
INÉS HERNÁNDEZ-AVILA
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Women's Theatre ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Perspectives ◽  
A Performance

This article considers Native American/indigenous (women's) theatre from the perspective of performing indigeneities/embodied spiritualities, in relation to ceremonial and ‘cotidian’ ri(gh)t(e)s, and the practice of personal and collective autonomy as a ri(gh)t(e). I situate my discussion within particular sites of the performance of indigeneity and the embodiment of spirituality in Chiapas, Mexico, where my research has taken me, within my own work with a performance course I created at the University of California, Davis, and within critical perspectives offered in Native American studies. I also provide some commentary on the two related gatherings that took place at the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA, in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, August 2008, and the Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas conference at UCLA, November 2008. Both events were co-sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics of NYU and they were announced on the UCLA website as ‘sister’ events. In August 2008, FOMMA officially became a ‘branch’ centre of the Hemispheric Institute.

Native American Studies

2012 ◽  
pp. II-417-II-427
Author(s):  
GERRY R. COX ◽  
JAC D. BULK
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Native American Studies
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