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Hollis Druhet University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA hdruhet2@illinois.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
MELUS, mlae049, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlae049
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Hollis Druhet, “For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline”: Rearticulating Social Value and Feminist Relation in the Poetics of Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo, MELUS, 2024;, mlae049, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlae049
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Those in suspension arc toward one another—becoming-open in an atmosphere of violence. Porosity thus becomes a site of potential, exposure, and entanglement all at once, questioning the stability of our worlds, human and nonhuman. In a porous relationality—attuning to how others (cannot) breathe, our haptics are enhanced and we develop capacities to feel one another otherwise.
—Kristen Simmons
Contemporary Dynamics between Race, Indigeneity, and US Settler Colonialism
While current scholarship continues to study the political significance of the racialized, colonized woman’s body, the imaginative, emancipatory ideals creatively mediated in historical anthologies such as This Bridge Called My Back (1981) remind readers of the dual nature, both aesthetic and theoretical, of interethnic feminist conversation. The poetry of Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo—read through a comparative ethnic studies interpretative framework—can produce co-identification across political membership, evading the reproduction of “epistemologies of colonial agnosia” where Black and Indigenous cultural productions are treated as isolated bodies of work (Vimalassery et al.). Reading Lorde and Harjo together is an opportunity to reconsider the stakes and scope of intersectional literature responsive to racial capitalism inflected by settler colonialism. I am interested in the relationship between social value and the politics of recognition in this literature, by which I mean the multiple scales at which protest is organized, embodied, and textualized. Protest, as a discourse, illuminates the relationship between social value and recognition because such movements are shaped by communities coming together to ask how they can amplify each other’s aspirations—how they can revitalize and reorganize the logic and circulation of value—when the state fails to heed calls for redress.
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