Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health

and courage--and the ultimate failure of the United States government to erase them

Sherman Alexie

In the spring of 1893

invites us to discover the wonder and comfort of a winter's night through a magnificent Moon Song

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature politics Drawing attention to the waysExamining 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