نارنا تصمد أمام العاصفة | طبعة من تاريخ الأدب الشيروكي، والمواطنة، والسيادة

Highlighting issues of citizenship and sovereignty, this edition provides a pioneering study of Cherokee writing in English, with an in-depth focus on the voices of the three Cherokee tribes. This edition represents an updated and comprehensive edition, focusing on the concept of nation, revised for the twentieth anniversary of Daniel Heath Justice's influential study of Cherokee writing in English. Through politically informed and historically grounded readings of diverse texts written by citizens of the Cherokee Nation, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Eastern Cherokee Band, Justice connects Cherokee literature to indigenous sovereignty, the concept of nation, and their collective future. From a reformist vision that directly addresses the ancient literary legacy of the first edition, this revision addresses the continuing harms of unsubstantiated and false claims of Cherokee heritage in literary studies, replacing readings of original texts by undocumented claimants with readings of Cherokee citizen writers. As Justice addresses issues of accountability, it engages with the past two decades of original scholarship, thoroughly updating terminology, concepts, and research resources. It also expands and deepens the intellectual and historical context of Cherokee literary production presented in the first edition, and discusses Cherokee writing and society in the mid-twentieth century, the long struggle of freed Cherokees for justice, and the future of Cherokee nationhood. Highlighting the works of writers who embody transformative collective discourses of what it means to be Cherokee, Justice examines the richness of Cherokee literary expression through symbols of roots, displacement, and national identity in traditional stories, letters, legal and government documents, memoirs, short stories, novels, and plays. This new edition of Our Fire Weathers the Storm invites reflexive critique, informed by the belief that Indigenous national identity is a necessary moral response to the violence of the settler imaginary.