Land Uprising

Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity

Simón Ventura Trujillo

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780816546947
  9780816540181
• eBook ISBN:
  9780816541263
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Hispanic American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Land Uprising reframes Indigenous land reclamation as a horizon to decolonize the settler colonial conditions of literary, intellectual, and activist labor. Simón Ventura Trujillo argues that land provides grounding for rethinking the connection between Native storytelling practices and Latinx racialization across overlapping colonial and nation-state forms.

Trujillo situates his inquiry in the cultural production of La Alianza Federal de Mercedes, a formative yet understudied organization of the Chicanx movement of the 1960s and 1970s. La Alianza sought to recover Mexican and Spanish land grants in New Mexico that had been dispossessed after the Mexican-American War. During graduate school, Trujillo realized that his grandparents were activists in La Alianza. Written in response to this discovery, Land Uprising bridges La Alianza's insurgency and New Mexican land grant struggles to the writings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Ana Castillo, Simon Ortiz, and the Zapatista Uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. In doing so, the book reveals uncanny connections between Chicanx, Latinx, Latin American, and Native American and Indigenous studies to grapple with Native land reclamation as the future horizon for Chicanx and Latinx indigeneities.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Note on Terms, Or X Marks a Suture
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: The Long, Wondrous Life of Ventura Chávez, 1926–2013
• Introduction: Insurgent Horizons
• 1. Revolt Is a Story, Not an Event: Anticapitalism and Pueblo Indian Endurance
• 2. The Mexican-American War Has Never Ended: Escape Stories and the Genízarx Diaspora in New Mexico
• 3. The Cricket and the Lion: The Experimental History of Indohispanx Mestizaje
• 4. Remember the Women Who Did the Building: Land Grant Cooperativity and the Folk Base of Chicana Feminism
• 5. Between the Word and the Land: Zapatismo as a Quantum Theory of Indigenous Rebellion
• Coda: Secrets, Scribes, and Secretaries
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Bibliography