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The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins

by Reid Gómez
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781517919757
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: USD 28.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Native American

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation

A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid G�mez makes "The Indian Connection" that Silko prophesizes--Land Back!--and offers a prescient response to Silko's enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Am�ricas?

Realizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, G�mez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: BlackIndian, slaverycolonization, and writingtranslation. G�mez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty/h�zhǫ́.

A theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko's Almanac to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship. Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, The Web of Differing Versions offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world.

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Reid Gómez is assistant professor of gender and women's studies, American Indian studies, and social, cultural, and critical theory at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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