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- Copyright
- Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado
- ISSN
- 0013-8282
- eISSN
- 2573-3575
- DOI
- 10.1215/00138282-8237366
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
............................................................................................................................................................................. leila gómez n addressing Indigenous American languages in a transhemispheric context, this I issue of ELN opens up conversations across disciplines and regions of the Amer- icas. Failure to cross the North-South boundary constitutes a long-standing geo- graphic blind spot in the field of Indigenous studies, one that this special issue encourages scholars to examine meaningfully. This issue brings together fruitful comparisons of theoretical frameworks and case studies across regions to find com- monalities and specificities that shed light on hemispheric Indigenous studies in North and South America today. This special issue is devoted to studying narratives of creation and territorial origin as they are told and transmitted in Indigenous languages and conflictive settings of the Americas. This emphasis on tribal language, long the target of colo- nial policies of eradication, constitutes the editor’s endeavor to engage Linda Tuhi- wai Smith’s framework of “decolonizing methodologies”: the central anticolo- nial strategies for which Smith advocates are the revitalization and revaluation of Indigenous languages, not merely for linguistic purposes but also because these languages are vehicles of non-Western worldviews and forms of knowledge for epis- temological and political purposes.1 For this reason, this special issue includes studies across the broader
Journal
English Language Notes – Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2020