Two Poems

Maracle, Lee

doi:10.1353/man.2013.0012

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“…I pick up the volumes of books cradling the text of this language.I feel the sandpapering this language once was and re-watch as my bodysmoothes the rough edges as the words journey through me. (Maracle 2013, 19)When I read Maracle's words, I am reminded of two powerful anthologies: A Gathering of Spirit (Brant 1988), and Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (Harjo and Bird 1998). Indeed, as Brant articulated, “writing done with a community consciousness” (Brant 1988, 19) has led to an Indigenous literary movement that extends Indigenous philosophies with contemporary realities to transform feminist theorizing.…”

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“…To bring this article full circle, I return to the words of Lee Maracle: I am home again.Squamish voices are everywhere here.I am so totally old and so completely new here.I pull fragments from old file cabinets,Splinters of memory,Bind them together to re-shape my world.I weave this imagined dream world onto oldSquamish blankets,history-hole-punched and worn—to re-craft today,to re-member future in this new languageAnd I sing I am home again. (Maracle 2013, 20)…”

Section: Theorizing Homeplace To Imagine Indigenous Futuritiesmentioning

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“…I'm home again.My pathway here is strewn with sharp stonessinging confusing songs of yearning.My bones,my personal stones,sing back songs of yearning—Tsuniquid'syearning.I watch myself highstep my way to this languageThis penThis paperthis place. (Maracle 2013, 18)Home is for us the origin, the shell of nurturance, our first fire and the harbinger of our relationship to the world. (Maracle and Laronde 2000, i)…”

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“…My entry point into this collective and ongoing conversation stems from my positionality as a Haudenosaunee woman and mother-scholar who teaches courses on Indigenous literatures through the lens of homeplace as liberatory praxis. My work is situated on Turtle Island, the land colonially known as North America, and it is from this place that I theorize about home and engage with Indigenous literatures that both yearn for and reimagine the home as articulated in Lee Maracle's “I'm Home Again” (in Maracle 2013). My intention in this article is to write about Indigenous understandings of homeplace and the associated lessons within Indigenous literatures.…”

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Finding Homeplace within Indigenous Literatures: Honoring the Genealogical Legacies of bell hooks and Lee Maracle

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2023

Hypatia

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This article maps out a pedagogical juncture of bell hooks's feminist theory of homeplace (hooks 2007) and Indigenous maternal pedagogies as liberatory praxis through a journey with Indigenous women's literatures. I position this work as a response to the call to transform feminist theorizing through Indigenous philosophies as articulated in a recent Hypatia special issue (Bardwell-Jones and McLaren 2020, 2). The article documents hooks's theory of homeplace as a space of resistance and renewal and shares insights into Indigenous experiences of homeplace within historical and contemporary contexts of genocide, and the ongoing racialized and sexualized violence on Turtle Island. I discuss finding homeplace in Indigenous literatures by sharing a genealogy of Indigenous women's literatures as theorizing tools for engaging social change within academic spaces. To bring this work full circle, I offer Indigenous perspectives of homeplace, and the lessons gleaned from Indigenous women's literatures, as intentional work toward imagining Indigenous futurities. Indeed, connecting this work with liberatory pedagogical praxis imagines a site to establish homeplace in academic settings and empower students to engage in the kind of work that fosters and calls for safer homes, schools, and communities.

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