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Driskill, Qwo-Li.
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Cherokee Indians -- Sexual behavior.
Two-spirit people -- Identity.
Gender identity.
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Driskill, Qwo-Li.
Cherokee Indians -- Sexual behavior.
Two-spirit people -- Identity.
Gender identity.
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Asegi stories :
Cherokee
queer
and
two-spirit
memory
/ Qwo-Li Driskill
by
Driskill, Qwo-Li.
The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
Call #:
306.768 D781a
Subjects
Cherokee
Indians -- Sexual behavior.
Two-spirit
people -- Identity.
Gender identity.
ISBN:
9780816530489 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Cherokee
queer
and
two-spirit
memory
Description:
xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index
Contents:
Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls -- chapter 1. Doubleweaving
two-spirit
critiques : building alliances between native and
queer
studies -- chapter 2. The
queer
lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes -- chapter 3. Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality -- chapter 4. Beautiful as the red rainbow :
Cherokee
two-spirits rebeautifying erotic
memory
-- Chapter 5. [
Cherokee
characters] (asegi ayetl) :
Cherokee
two-spirit
people reimagining nation -- Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto
Summary:
"In
Cherokee
Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men's and women's roles or who mix men's and women's roles. Asegi, which translates as "strange," is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to "
queer
." For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread
Cherokee
history in order to listen for those stories rendered "strange" by colonial heteropatriarchy. As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous
Queer
or
Two-Spirit
critique, Asegi Stories examines gender and sexuality in
Cherokee
cultural
memory
, how they shape the present, and how they can influence the future. The theoretical and methodological underpinnings of Asegi Stories derive from activist, artistic, and intellectual genealogies, referred to as "dissent lines" by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Driskill intertwines
Cherokee
and other Indigenous traditions, women of color feminisms, grassroots activisms,
queer
and Trans studies and politics, rhetoric, Native studies, and decolonial politics. Drawing from oral histories and archival documents in order to articulate Cherokee-centered
Two-Spirit
critiques, Driskill contributes to the larger intertribal movements for social justice. Qwo-Li Driskill is an assistant professor in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Oregon State University"--Provided by publisher.
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