Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh: Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
Autor Renae Watchman Cuvânt înainte de Luci Tapahonsoen Paperback – 30 apr 2024
This insightful volume delves into land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories—oral, literary, and visual. Like the dynamism and kinetic facets of hózhǫ́,* Restoring Relations Through Stories takes us through many landscapes, places, and sites. Renae Watchman introduces the book with an overview of stories that bring Tsé Bitʼaʼí, or Shiprock Peak, the sentinel located in what is currently the state of New Mexico, to life. The book then introduces the dynamic field of Indigenous film through a close analysis of two distinct Diné-directed feature-length films, and ends by introducing Dene literatures.
While the Diné (those from the four sacred mountains in Dinétah in the southwestern United States) are not now politically and economically cohesive with the Dene (who are in Denendeh in Canada), they are ancestral and linguistic relatives. In this book, Watchman turns to literary and visual texts to explore how relations are restored through stories, showing how literary linkages from land-based stories affirm Diné and Dene kinship. She explores the power of story to forge ancestral and kinship ties between the Diné and Dene across time and space through re-storying of relations.
*A complex Diné worldview and philosophy that cannot be defined with one word in the English language. Hózhǫ́ means to continually strive for harmony, beauty, balance, peace, and happiness, but most importantly the Diné have a right to it.
While the Diné (those from the four sacred mountains in Dinétah in the southwestern United States) are not now politically and economically cohesive with the Dene (who are in Denendeh in Canada), they are ancestral and linguistic relatives. In this book, Watchman turns to literary and visual texts to explore how relations are restored through stories, showing how literary linkages from land-based stories affirm Diné and Dene kinship. She explores the power of story to forge ancestral and kinship ties between the Diné and Dene across time and space through re-storying of relations.
*A complex Diné worldview and philosophy that cannot be defined with one word in the English language. Hózhǫ́ means to continually strive for harmony, beauty, balance, peace, and happiness, but most importantly the Diné have a right to it.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816550340
ISBN-10: 0816550344
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 11 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
ISBN-10: 0816550344
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 11 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
Notă biografică
Renae Watchman (Diné and Tsalagi) is Bitter Water, born for Towering House, Bird Clan (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), and Red Running Through the Water. She is an associate professor of Indigenous studies at McMaster University and the co-editor of Indianthusiasm: Indigenous Responses.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Luci Tapahonso
Preface
Ahéhee’ (Acknowledgments)
Introduction: “Hózhǫ́ Through Stories”
1. Tsé Bit’a’í: Stories of the Winged Rock
2. Visual Storytelling as Restorative and Relational
3. Reel Restoration in Drunktown’s Finest
4. Diné Diegesis: 5th World
5. Denendeh Storytelling: Kinship Restor(i)ed
Conclusion: Náásgóó nizhónígo bee oonish dooleeł . . .
Notes 157 Bibliography
Selected Indigenous Filmography
Index
Foreword by Luci Tapahonso
Preface
Ahéhee’ (Acknowledgments)
Introduction: “Hózhǫ́ Through Stories”
1. Tsé Bit’a’í: Stories of the Winged Rock
2. Visual Storytelling as Restorative and Relational
3. Reel Restoration in Drunktown’s Finest
4. Diné Diegesis: 5th World
5. Denendeh Storytelling: Kinship Restor(i)ed
Conclusion: Náásgóó nizhónígo bee oonish dooleeł . . .
Notes 157 Bibliography
Selected Indigenous Filmography
Index
Recenzii
“Watchman shows how the old stories, maintained over centuries . . . tie together the Diné and Dene through ancestral and linguistic connections. The works that are surveyed herein reinforce the import of remembering, retelling, and revising the old stories so that they are germane today.”—Luci Tapahonso, from the foreword
"Restoring Relations Through Stories shows how land-based storying among Diné and Dene peoples is strong and continues in the twenty-first century and beyond. It demonstrates how Indigenous peoples continue to remain connected to the land and sustain distinctive ways of life through their narratives, lands, and filmmaking."—Lloyd Lee, author of Diné Identity in a Twenty-First Century World
"Renae Watchman’s Restoring Relations Through Stories introduces readers to the powerful force of 'Hane’tonomy' and the work of Diné creatives who refuse misappropriated and inauthentic views by advancing decisive versions of their world. Hane’tonomy provides us all with a new framework for understanding complex works such as Sydney Freeland’s Drunktown’s Finest, Blackhorse Lowe’s 5th World, or Hollywood’s deracinating obsession with the Navajo Nation and Shiprock as a backdrop. It moves toward a meaningful, though potentially daunting, provocation in forging new connections through restorying with ancestral kin of the Diné in present-day Canada."—Jeff Berglund, co-editor of The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
"Watchman has made a major contribution to American studies, Indigenous studies, and folklore studies."—B. Almon, CHOICE Connect
"Restoring Relations Through Stories shows how land-based storying among Diné and Dene peoples is strong and continues in the twenty-first century and beyond. It demonstrates how Indigenous peoples continue to remain connected to the land and sustain distinctive ways of life through their narratives, lands, and filmmaking."—Lloyd Lee, author of Diné Identity in a Twenty-First Century World
"Renae Watchman’s Restoring Relations Through Stories introduces readers to the powerful force of 'Hane’tonomy' and the work of Diné creatives who refuse misappropriated and inauthentic views by advancing decisive versions of their world. Hane’tonomy provides us all with a new framework for understanding complex works such as Sydney Freeland’s Drunktown’s Finest, Blackhorse Lowe’s 5th World, or Hollywood’s deracinating obsession with the Navajo Nation and Shiprock as a backdrop. It moves toward a meaningful, though potentially daunting, provocation in forging new connections through restorying with ancestral kin of the Diné in present-day Canada."—Jeff Berglund, co-editor of The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
"Watchman has made a major contribution to American studies, Indigenous studies, and folklore studies."—B. Almon, CHOICE Connect
Descriere
This insightful volume offers an analysis of land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in their own cinematic, visual, and literary stories. Watchman uses literary and visual texts to explore how relations are restored, showing how literary linkages from land-based stories affirm kinship.