Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Potawatomi and its coverage of Indigenous

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

Chi-mewinzha (long ago) presents this venerable elder’s words in the original Ojibwe

―Maggie Nelson

the "promised land" notion

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

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature Potawatomi and its coverage of IndigenousExamining 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