Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Potawatomi ―Maggie Nelson

―Maggie Nelson

While the messy day-to-day is created by their own doing

The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers

and its coverage of Indigenous issues from the founding of the United States through the twenty-first century

She makes jewel bearings at the plant

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Potawatomi ―Maggie NelsonExamining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred to The Round House by Louise Erdrich, themes of retribution resound throughout the work of renowned Black and Indigenous women and queer authors. Revealing how the Black Power Movement and the American Indian Movement influenced literature from the 1960s onward, Murderous Feeling explores how these writers have employed revenge