VIOLENCE, RELATION AND BEAUTY IN TONI JENSEN’S “WOMEN IN THE FRACKLANDS”

• Authors: Martínez-Falquina Silvia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Through a close reading of Métis US writer Toni Jensen’s “Women in the Fracklands”, a standalone chapter in her memoir-in-essays Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land (2020), this article aims at making a culture-specific and narrative-focused contribution to the current theory of resilience. It does so by emphasizing Jensen’s denouncing of violence against Indigenous bodies and lands – particularly women in and around fracking sites – and her articulation of the Indigenous value of relationality as the embodiment of lands, bodies and language. The resulting account of resilience is both individual and communal; simultaneously based on the connection to place and history and focused on the present and the future; affirming sovereignty and becoming a decolonial tool of visibilization and empowerment.

Keywords

EN

MÉTIS; NATIVE AMERICANS; WOMEN; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; RESILIENCE; TONI JENSEN

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 101 – 112

Contributors

author

Martínez-Falquina Silvia

• Department of English and German Philology, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8054-095X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.2.9