Place-Based Consciousness, Relationality, and Interdependence in Contemporary Native American Memoir

How do we preserve place-based memories and sites from colonial and environmental destruction? What are our roles and responsibilities in the natural web of interdependence? This presentation will examine Leslie Marmon Silko’s mobility strategies and place-based solidarity as she contributes to vindicate the centrality of Indigenous environmental knowledge and to create a home/space for more-than-human communities in her memoir The Turquoise Ledge (2010). Walking with the land becomes a form of resistance, protection, and protest as this well-known Laguna Pueblo writer questions settler colonial practices in the area around the Tucson Mountains, in Arizona, and aims to build an Earth-house for the more-than-human dwellers who share this contested territory with her.

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Speaker: Anna M. Brígido-Corachán (Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Valencia, where she coordinates the research group LENA - North American Ethnic Minority Literatures in a Global Context-)

Sponsors: RCCHU, Harvard University, University of València