Imperiality, Deep Time, and Indigenous Landmark Epistemologies in North America

Mackenthun, Gesa

doi:10.1515/9783110418750-004

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110418750-004

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Imperiality, Deep Time, and Indigenous Landmark Epistemologies in North America

Gesa Mackenthun¹

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“…I analyze settler discourse regarding the land and Indigenous knowledge and highlight the ways border residents maintain it “within and beyond the historical record” (Mackenthun & Mucher, 2021). I use oral histories as well as local archival and historical records to demonstrate the usefulness of nuestra ciencia to outsiders and how border residents gained and shared this knowledge.…”

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“…I draw on the oral history of Margarita Garcia, archival research and interviews held at the Museum of South Texas History, and nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century botanical surveys of south Texas to highlight how bioprospecting and the modernizing Western scientific gaze influenced the development of south Texas. Further, I use historical and journalistic pieces commemorating the Hidalgo County centennial to show the laudatory ways regional historiography celebrates “extractive capitalism and the technologies of uneven power that [ultimately] sustain the settler state” (Mackenthun & Mucher, 2021) and further delegitimizes local ecological knowledge.…”

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Nuestra ciencia as transborder ecological knowledge and survival

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This article frames what one of my collaborators calls nuestra ciencia (our science) as a concept that expresses a transborder worldview based on region‐specific scientific land and healing practices. I trace the ways Indigenous science came into fierce conflict with the twentieth‐century wave of Anglo settler‐colonial land grabs in south Texas and how the resulting force of mass agriculture enabled mass destruction and biodiversity loss in the region. It offers an environmental, archival, and ethnographic analysis of curanderismo (Mexican traditional medicine) as science and explores its relationship to settler colonialism, environmental degradation, and processes of racialization in relation to health, science, and medical technologies, as well as tracing the ongoing material record of its practice. I frame Mexican transborder healing traditions (curanderismo and plant medicine) as serious social, scientific, and ecological processes. I make it clear that although this practice is often considered a Mexican tradition, de‐Indigenized mestizos also practice, exploit, and appropriate it, while its roots lie in Indigenous lifeways and knowledge.

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2023

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An Ecolinguistic Analysis of Circe by Madeline Miller: Reconstructing the Relations Among Different Forms of Beings Through Figurative Reconceptualizations

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2022

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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Madeline Miller is one of the most renowned "revisionist mythmakers" in the 21st century. Miller`s prize-winning novel Circe (2019) is an attempt to recreate the histories of the mythological past in the revised versions of herstories. Like Angela Carter, and Margaret Atwood; Madeline Miller intends to deconstruct the phallogocentric narrations which have established the literary canon by recreating the same stories from a feminist perspective. To do so, she rewrites the myth of Circe, a formidable sorceress, who is treated as a minor character in the male-authored The Odyssey from Circe`s point of view. Miller explains what she aims to do as follows: "I wanted her to be the center of the story. I wanted it to be an epic story about a woman's life. And for her to have all the attention and all the adventures and the growth, the errors, the virtues, that heroes like Achilles and Odysseus have in their stories" (Nicolau, 2018, p. 7). In this sense Circe can be described as a "female epic" or a "mythographic metafiction" (Nunes, 2014, pp. 231–232). This article intends to examine Miller`s stylistic choices with an ecolinguistic approach by focusing specifically on her use of similes to find out why she employs this figure of speech with high frequency and what discursive effects she has created and what ideological implications her use of similes offer. The ecolinguistic examination of how she employs the similes in Circe reveals that Miller skillfully brings together an ecologically conscious language and thought to reflect her vision which can be characterized as ecosophic wisdom.

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The Witch(ES) of Aiaia: Gender, Immortality and the Chronotope in Madeline Miller’s Circe

MacMillan

2019

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This article explores Madeline Miller’s Circe from the perspective of Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the inseparability of space and time in fiction. The article focuses on the chronotopes of the road, the idyll and the threshold in the novel, and how these intersect with its themes of gender and immortality. The island of Aiaia acts as a threshold, transforming all who cross it. Circe’s life on the island, however, is a repetitive idyll; only at the end of the novel does she become a traveller on the road herself rather than just a stop on the way.

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Imperiality, Deep Time, and Indigenous Landmark Epistemologies in North America

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Nuestra ciencia as transborder ecological knowledge and survival

Nuestra ciencia as transborder ecological knowledge and survival

An Ecolinguistic Analysis of Circe by Madeline Miller: Reconstructing the Relations Among Different Forms of Beings Through Figurative Reconceptualizations

The Witch(ES) of Aiaia: Gender, Immortality and the Chronotope in Madeline Miller’s Circe

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