{"pk":1652,"title":"stories, surviving, and what a poem can do? in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay reads the poetry in Deborah Miranda's <em>Bad Indians </em>as a form of re-storying, a way of retelling stories and reclaiming the historical memory of those stories without abandoning their subjectivities, and without falling into the constraint of rules of determine stories must have a particular ‘structure’; must be ‘accurate and unchanged’; and must always,  retellings, represent some sense of ‘truth’. This essay opens with and is primarily composed of close readings of three poems, which include: \"Los Pájaros,\" \"Lies My Ancestors Told for Me,\" and \"Ishi at Large.” The decision to structure the essay in this manner is meant to underscore how poetry provides the historical and cultural lens for understanding California Indians history, and for recognizing how California Indian ways of being impact how we read poetry simultaneously. In doing so, this essay illustrates how Miranda's writing refuses to settle with making counter-narratives to colonial logics but is further entwined with the difficult task of bringing certain omissions, clues, lies, shards, into the light and reaffirming their relationality to one another.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p49f2jq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Cj","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jackson","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2023-09-02T20:06:36.742000+03:00","date_accepted":"2023-12-22T01:18:39.993000+03:00","date_published":"2024-12-01T23:29:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/aicrj/article/1652/galley/30182/download/"}]}