On Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form

Document Type

Book Review

Authors

Shelby Johnson, Oklahoma State UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Shelby Johnson is an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University, where she researches and teaches on gender and sexuality, race and Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities in early literatures of the Americas. In her book, The Rich Earth between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World (2024), she argues that figures of a gifted earth organize a set of worlding practices that ground and animate anticolonial intimacies in Black and Indigenous archives. She is also the co-editor (with Jeremy Chow) of Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (2024).

Abstract

Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form by Mark Rifkin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $28.95 paperback.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Shelby (2023) "On Speaking for the People: Native Writing and the Question of Political Form," Criticism: Vol. 65: Iss. 3, Article 6.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol65/iss3/6