Asegi stories : Cherokee queer and two-spirit memory

Summary: "The book focuses on the concept of asegi stories--stories that revise and revive Cherokee cultural memories of same-sex relationships and non-binary gender systems. It is the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous queer/two-spirit critique, providing a Cherokee 2GLBTQ lens from which to interpret the past, understand our present, and imagine decolonial futures"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780816530489 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: print
xii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls -- Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques : building alliances between native and queer studies -- The queer lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes -- Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality -- Beautiful as the red rainbow : Cherokee two-spirits rebeautifying erotic memory -- Asegi ayetl : Cherokee two-spirit people reimagining nation -- Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto.