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In Cheryl Savageau's new book of poetry, Mother/Land, she radically re-maps New England as Native American space. Savageau retells and re-imagines creation stories, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people, and weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance. Savageau's "unhistory" tells the stories of her people without privileging the moment of contact with Europe as the defining moment for viewing the culture. Mother/Land is beaded with gems from her mother's jewel box-poems that tell stories of her mother's life, and the complexities of survival and love in a family of mixed heritage. Savageau's work signals the reemergence of a people who have been described as "hiding in plain sight." In contrast to stereotypical associations of Native Americans with "Mother Earth," this poetry highlights the bittersweet complexities of the relationship between a woman and her homeland, whose bodies seem to be constantly under siege.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Mother/Land
• Author: Cheryl Savageau
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• EAN: 9781844712694
• ISBN: 1844712699
• ID: 05095542
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Weight: 212 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2006

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