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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 12, 2024** 

 05:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge**  



 

 



 

 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



 

 



 

 

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