Asegi stories
Subtitle: Cherokee queer and two-spirit memory
By: Qwo-Li Driskill
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780816530489
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Identity; Social conditions; Cherokee Indians; Sexual behavior; Gender identity; Indian sexual minorities
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Asegi stories : memories between the basket walls; title: chapter 1. Doubleweaving two-spirit critiques : building alliances between native and queer studies; title: chapter 2. The queer lady of Cofitachequi and other asegi routes; title: chapter 3. Unweaving the basket : missionaries, slavery, and the regulation of gender and sexuality; title: chapter 4. Beautiful as the red rainbow : Cherokee two-spirits rebeautifying erotic memory; title: Chapter 5. [Cherokee characters] (asegi ayetl) : Cherokee two-spirit people reimagining nation; title: Epilogue. Doubleweave : an asegi manifesto.