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A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation
A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gómez makes "The Indian Connection" that Silko prophesizes - Land Back! - and offers a prescient response to Silko's enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Américas?
Realizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, Gómez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: Black Indian, slavery colonization, and writing translation. Gómez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty/hózhǫ́.
A theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko's Almanac to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship. Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, The Web of Differing Versions offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world.
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Contents
Contents
Preface: Always Together, Always Told Apart
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation and Orthography
Quick Start Guide
I Have a Story for That
Kill Them, They Are Mortal
In the Key of Almanac of the Dead: Five Hundred Year Map
The Journey of the Ancient Almanac: An Elaborate Story Structure
Garden Story: The Letter S
The Oscillator
In the Key of Tucson, Arizona
Oceanstory: Landsea
One of Us
Black Lives, Red Earth, White Lies
Hustle Monday Disco: Week 20
Hustle Monday Disco: Week 14
Slavery Broadcast: There Are No White People
In the Key of the Indian Connection
Slavery Broadcast: A Garden Story
Stop Trying to Tell Me Things and Pull
Garden Story: The Great Mystery
Slavery Broadcast: The Texture of Hate
Slavery Broadcast: The Gunadeeyah Clan
Slavery Broadcast: We All Know Who We Are
Slavery Broadcast: 1804 Complex Time Indigenous Revolt
In the Key of Prophecy
A Geronimo Story, a Long Time Ago
Merciless Indian Savages
Garden Story: DNA of Earth and Sky
The House of Natasha Diggs
The Key to the Future: Get Good on Purpose
Urban Legend
Paradise
Ghost Dance: Angelita de La Noche
Coda: Where Africa Ends and America Begins
I Am Telling: A Neoslave Escape Story
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
