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Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarity
Inspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines the multifaceted connection between Chiapas and Palestine. In tracing unseen threads that connect parallel geographies of struggle found in contemporary Mayan and Palestinian narratives, Indigenous Affinities proposes affinity as a new conceptual framework. Eqeiq shows how - despite emerging from distinct historical processes of minoritization, subalternization, and racialization - Mayan and Palestinian written, visual, and performance texts articulate a common configuration of Indigeneity. These seemingly unrelated connections, Eqeiq contends, can be read through shared histories of land struggle, practices of autonomy, quests for liberation, and collective resistance to racial capitalism, military oppression, and colonial violence.
Eqeiq examines murals that offer a visual testimony to common struggles and transnational connection, explores fragmented bilingualisms that have propelled language revival and revitalization, highlights a shared concern with borders, and documents the performative commemorations of massacres. Reading such sites together in the complexities and specificities of disparate contexts, Indigenous Affinities illuminates how the lens of affinity can elucidate solidarity and resistance within the Global South.
Contents
Note on Transliteration ix
Introduction: On Conversations Yet to Be Had 1
1 On Affinity and Affiliative Comparison 19
2 Topographies of Affinities: Writing Erasure and Borderlands 51
3 Border Crossers and City Dwellers: Narratives of Indigenous Urban Culture 94
4 Murals, Marches, and Metaphors: Performative Commemoration
in Rural Chiapas and Palestine 119
Conclusion: Unveiling with Affinity 153
Postscript: Indigenous Affinities after the Gaza Genocide 157
Acknowledgments 167
Glossary 179
Notes 181
Bibliography 211
Index 225
