Description:
Placing novels in conversation with nonfiction writings, Native Removal Writing ranges from texts produced in response to the legal and political struggle over Cherokee Removal in the late 1820s and 1830s, to works written by African Cherokee writers dealing with the freedmen disenrollment crisis, to contemporary speculative fiction that links the appropriation of Native intangible property (culture) with the earlier dispossession of their real property (land).
Brief description:
Sabine N. Meyer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is the author of We Are What We Drink: The Temperance Battle in Minnesota.
Review Quotes: "Native Removal Writing is bold and illuminating. Historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, Meyer's revelatory readings show how Native writers continually renew the narrative of Removal in ways that speak to contemporary crises and reinforce ongoing practices of persistence and resurgence. It is a profound and generative contribution."--Beth Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature