Ceremony (1977)

Silko, Leslie Marmon

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“…Silko's text validates a very wide range of forces as participants in the democratic community signified by the culturally marked double narrators who tell the story. The "all," the social community alluded to, extends far beyond the local human community and has universal implications [6]. As in Louise Erdrich's Tracks, that community includes the life-sustaining elemental forces of the natural world and in the human dimension disregards local "cultural" boundaries [7].…”

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“…So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then [6].…”

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“…He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at the Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense." [6] The teachers' critical vocabulary has introduced a conception of the stories as nonstories --as "non [-]sense" --and thus as without meaning, function, or applicability in the dimension of real experience. The Indo-European, Western, education provides him with knowledge about European and American history.…”

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Textual unification in a community of Native American storytelling voices

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This article explores the centerpiece of contrast between the dominant American and Native American tribal societies – the interaction of individual and group in maintaining community. While Western paradigms of personal development focus on the individual – a model consistently reflected in the most popular Western narrative structures, Native Americans prefer a support group as a center for individual development. In extreme forms, statements about this social phenomenon can become ethnocentric and stereotyped. Ethnographic observations confirm this difference in social systems, but sometimes specifically question stereotypical interpretation. Our analysis leads us to the conclusion that instead of necessarily including an individual in a group, American tribal society can value both group and individual.

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“…So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then [6].…”

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“…He stroked his moustache as if he were remembering things. -from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko [Silko, 1977].…”

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Disorderly Archives and Orderly Accounts: Reflections on the Occasion of Glasgow's Geographical Centenary

Lorimer

Philo

2009

Scottish Geographical Journal

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The Centenary of Geography at the University of Glasgow has occasioned a gathering together of various materials that illuminate 100 years of teaching and researching the subject in this ancient seat of learning. Visits to the University Archives to recover the 'official' record from Court and Senate Minutes, and much else besides, have been supplemented by foraging through and in departmental rooms, cupboards, shelves and filing cabinets, sometimes intruding into the personal 'holdings' of colleagues. The result has been to assemble what might be said to comprise the department's Geography 'archive', incomplete and fragmentary as it undoubtedly remains. The present paper offers reflections on this archive, considering the different registers of order and disorder that it embraces. In addition, critical attention is given to the different modes of recounting Glasgow Geography's history that can be constructed with these varying archival remains. The objective is to open windows, orderly and otherwise, on Glasgow's Geographical Centenary, but also to wonder at what might be gained by allowing more disorder into the archive.

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“…As dilemmas, these choices recognize that all academic scholarship production and its processes are birthed from, and serve, an epistemology of hierarchical social configurations (Cusicanqui, 2012(Cusicanqui, /2019Mignolo, 2009) which serve empire maintenance and expansion. While we were first introduced to this in academia through Mignolo's (2009) writings on zero-point epistemology, as Cusicanqui (2012Cusicanqui ( /2019 describes, these configurations have long been clear and taught within and across communities under threat of removal by hegemonic powers, and act to legitimize and subordinate through conceptual and intellectual projects of colonialism (Lowe, 2015;Richards, 1993;Silko, 2006;Wa Thiong'o, 1992). We draw from feminist scholar Sara Ahmed's (2006Ahmed's ( , 2007b) concept of "straightening devices" to recognize how what we identify to be researcher choices exist within a terrain of options that persistently orient research in critical language studies towards empire entrenchments, white-Euro racial framing, and racial-linguistic capitalism (Cushing-Leubner 2020a, 2020bHeller & McElhinny, 2017).…”

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Imperial straightening devices in disciplinary choices of academic knowledge production

Cushing‐Leubner

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Ennser–Kananen

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In this piece, the authors question whether critical language research, in its complex collection of researcher choices, is possible beyond the discursive imaginary of critical academic scholarship. In other words, how do (allegedly) anticolonial efforts re-orient towards contribution to the imperial record? We present three vignettes, through which we grapple with the notion that researcher choice exists within the solipsism of academia. In doing so, we frame research and scholarship as a collection of choices, which we believe are better understood as a collection of fraught dilemmas. These dilemmas recognize that all academic scholarship production and its processes are birthed from, and serve, an epistemology of hierarchical social configurations, which serve empire maintenance and expansion. As critical language scholars who bring overlapping and distinct sociopolitical, geographic, and methodological positionalities, these autoethnographic narrative vignettes allow us to begin to see the landscape of researcher choice in the processes and projects of accumulating knowledge production. We identify imperial straightening devices for legitimization into the imperial archive and examine how they work to orient and re-orient critical language scholars towards the ideological and material production of the imperial archive.

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Ceremony (1977)

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Textual unification in a community of Native American storytelling voices

Textual unification in a community of Native American storytelling voices

Disorderly Archives and Orderly Accounts: Reflections on the Occasion of Glasgow's Geographical Centenary

Imperial straightening devices in disciplinary choices of academic knowledge production

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