Indigenous journeys, transatlantic perspectives: relational worlds in contemporary Native American literature

• Pardellas Fernández, Cristina ^[1] (res.)
  1. [1] Universidade da Coruña

     Universidade da Coruña

     A Coruña, España

     
• Localización: REDEN [Nueva época]: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN-e 2695-4168, Vol. 7, Nº. 2, 2026, págs. 191-194
• Idioma: canarés

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  • Indigenous journeys, transatlantic perspectives: relational worlds in contemporary Native American literature

    Anna M Brígido Corachán (ed. lit.)

    Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2023

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  • Anna M. Brígido-Corachán’s edited collection Indigenous Journeys, Transatlantic Perspectives: Relational Worlds in Contemporary Native American Literature (Michigan State University Press, 2023) advances transnational and trans-Indigenous debates in Native American studies by foregrounding relational epistemologies as critical methodologies. Emerging from the 2018 symposium “Teaching and Theorizing Native American Literature as World Literature,” this eight-chapter collection gathers mainly European and North American scholars whose essays engage decolonial ethics in cross-cultural literary analysis. The volume situates Indigenous literary production within global circuits of translation, pedagogy, and activism, linking land-based worldviews to transatlantic contexts from the Americas to Europe and Africa. Case studies examine Anishinaabe grounded relationality; Choctaw-Cherokee narrative webs; a sensory account of James Welch’s “cross-worlds”; Ojibwe-Basque dialogues on reparatory justice; transborder poetics by Ofelia Zepeda and Irma Pineda; analyses of genomic research and environmental devastation; and Ortiz’s diary-poems as prayerful continuance. Collectively, contributors elaborate an Indigenous-centered theory of world literature that challenges Eurocentric paradigms through comparative, place-based readings addressing gender, ecology, and sovereignty. By integrating ecocritical, ethical, and world-literature approaches, Indigenous Journeys positions relational worlds at the heart of contemporary Indigenous literary scholarship, exemplifying a model of transnational collaboration committed to respect, accountability, and the renewal of Indigenous epistemologies.