Indigenous Narratives: Global Forces in Motion (An Introduction)

Authors

  • Eman Ghanayem University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Rebecca Macklin University of Leeds

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.789

Abstract

The guest editors' introduction to the Spring/Summer 2019 special issue.  

Author Biographies

Eman Ghanayem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eman Ghanayem is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines Palestinian and American Indian literatures, and the larger context of global indigenous and refugee narratives, through a framework of interconnected settler colonialisms and comparative indigeneities. Eman can be reached at e.ghanayem@gmail.com.

Rebecca Macklin , University of Leeds

Rebecca Macklin is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds and was 2017-18 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher in English at Cornell University, where she was affiliated with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Her research is focused on Native American and South African literary engagements with capitalism, (de)coloniality, and environmental justice and she has had writing published in Native American and Indigenous Studies and Wasafiri. She is interested in how the arts can be used as a tool for youth empowerment and has facilitated participatory arts workshops for young people in South Africa, as a project facilitator with Changing the Story (https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/) and board trustee for the Bishop Simeon Trust (http://www.bstrust.org/).

 

 

"To Exist is to Resist" mural on the Israeli Apartheid Wall by Gustavo Chávez Pavón. Photo reproduced with permission of the artist.

Downloads

Published

2019-07-01

How to Cite

Ghanayem, E., & Macklin , R. . (2019). Indigenous Narratives: Global Forces in Motion (An Introduction). Transmotion, 5(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.789

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): Native American Narratives in a Global Context - guest edited by Eman Ghanayem and Rebecca Macklin

Section

Guest Editorial

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

 

    1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).