Book contents
- Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
- Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction “A Fault Line of Pain”
- Chapter 1 “Fear of a Black Planet”
- Chapter 2 Ghosts and Reparations
- Chapter 3 Mapping and Memory
- Chapter 4 “Bodies Tell Stories”
- Chapter 5 Round Dance and Resistance
- Chapter 6 “Slow Insurrection”
- Chapter 7 Cannibal Spirits and Sacred Seeds
- Epilogue “Everyday Micro-utopias”
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 3 - Mapping and Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2021
- Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
- Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction “A Fault Line of Pain”
- Chapter 1 “Fear of a Black Planet”
- Chapter 2 Ghosts and Reparations
- Chapter 3 Mapping and Memory
- Chapter 4 “Bodies Tell Stories”
- Chapter 5 Round Dance and Resistance
- Chapter 6 “Slow Insurrection”
- Chapter 7 Cannibal Spirits and Sacred Seeds
- Epilogue “Everyday Micro-utopias”
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the link between Indigenous resistance and memory and looks at the potential for alliances. I begin with Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back, written in commemoration of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt against Spanish imperialism. Fight Back asserts that memory is essential to contemporary resistance by reclaiming the history of the Revolt and restoring this memory to the people. I bring Chela Sandoval’s concept of“coalitional consciousness” into dialogue with Fight Back to show how Ortiz countermaps the landscape, offering a model for contemporary alliances. Following Ortiz’s generous vision of alliances between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous allies, I turn to Nick Estes’s description of contemporary solidarity and Indigenous-led coalitions at Standing Rock. Then, in the final part of the chapter, I bring two authors, Kazim Ali and Rita Wong, into dialogue to think through the responsibilities of alliance.
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- Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental JusticePoetics of Dissent and Repair, pp. 80 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021