{"product_id":"9780816533640","title":"Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory","description":"In Cherokee \u003ci\u003eAsegi udanto\u003c\/i\u003e refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. \u003ci\u003eAsegi\u003c\/i\u003e, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread Cherokee history in order to listen for those stories rendered “strange” by colonial heteropatriarchy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous Queer or Two-Spirit critique, \u003ci\u003eAsegi Stories\u003c\/i\u003e examines gender and sexuality in Cherokee cultural memory, how they shape the present, and how they can influence the future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The theoretical and methodological underpinnings of \u003ci\u003eAsegi Stories\u003c\/i\u003e derive from activist, artistic, and intellectual genealogies, referred to as “dissent lines” by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Driskill intertwines Cherokee and other Indigenous traditions, women of color feminisms, grassroots activisms, queer and Trans studies and politics, rhetoric, Native studies, and decolonial politics. Drawing from oral histories and archival documents in order to articulate Cherokee-centered Two-Spirit critiques, Driskill contributes to the larger intertribal movements for social justice.","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118845542640,"sku":"9780816533640","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780816533640_p0.jpg?v=1763745604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816533640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}