أفكار وآفاق
Volume 12, Numéro 3, Pages 147-161
2024-12-19
Deep(er) Mappings Of Palestinian And Native American Homelands In Lisa Suhair Majaj's Poem “fifty Years On/stones On An Unfinished Wall” And Deborah A.miranda's “indian Cartography”.
Authors : Chekkal Hala . Chouiten Lynda .
Abstract
This article analyses Palestinian-American poet Suhair majaj’s poem “Fifty Years On/Stones on an Unfinished Wall” and Native American poet Deborah Miranda’s “Indian Cartography”. It examines how these two poetic pieces evince a dynamic interplay between restorative nostalgia and deeper mapping ,which focuses on prioritizing “Indigenous knowledge” over Western interpretations when understanding and mapping indigenous locations. These poems serve as cartographic records of indigenous homelands, employing a cartographic-nostalgic documentation approach that takes a decolonial stance against persistent colonial efforts aimed at erasing indigenous markers of the dispossessed lands.
Keywords
Deeper mapping ; Dispossessed homelands ; Native American poetry ; Nostalgia ; Palestinian-American poetry
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