« With a chapter on the Irish settler diaspora: Ciaran O’Neill, Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State, Oxford University Press, 2024
The settlers’ home at the settlers’ home: Eileen Chanin, ‘Australia House: shaping Dominion status in the imperial capital, 1907-63’, in Alex Bremner , Daniel Maudlin (eds), Inner empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950, Manchester University Press, 2024 »

Storytelling in settler colonial times: Shantel Martinez, Kelly Medina-López (eds), Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling, University Press of Mississippi, 2024

23Nov24

Description: Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling is a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America. To give voice to this complicated identity, this volume investigates how cultures of ghost storytelling foreground a sense of belonging and home in people from LatIndigenous landscapes. Monsters and Saints reflects intersectional and intergenerational understandings of lived experiences, bodies, and traumas as narrated through embodied hauntings. Contributions to this anthology represent a commitment to thoughtful inquiry into the ways storytelling assigns meaning through labels like monster, saint, and ghost, particularly as these unfold in the context of global migration. For many marginalized and displaced peoples, a sense of belonging is always haunted through historical exclusion from an original homespace. This exclusion further manifests as limited bodily autonomy. By locating the concept of “home” as beyond physical constructs, the volume argues that spectral stories and storytelling practices of LatIndigeneity (re)configure affective states and spaces of being, becoming, migrating, displacing, and belonging.


Filed under: Uncategorized   |  Closed