Natalie Diaz's new poetry collection interrogates the lasting effects of colonization, asking: If a colonizer's influence can't be eradicated from a culture, how can you push back against violence and erasure?
the depth of the substance abuse and mental illness conditioned by reservation life and the legacy of colonialism are represented via the narrator's broken brother; the violence his brokenness creates in the family, hauntsas well.
Interestingly, unlike other poets working in the postcolonial space — like Sudanese American poet Safia Elhillo, for example, whose decolonization of language requires the presence of Arabic to both take up space among the colonizer's English that she is writing into act as a marker of Islam amidst the colonizer's forced Christianity that Africa was pressed to believe in — Diaz does not interrogate the colonization of language and belief systems through the use of the Mojave language;...
Aha Makav means the river runs through the middle of our body, the same way it runs through the middle of our land,"This is a poor translation, like all translations." This is, perhaps, also an oblique explanation of the present absence of her mother tongue.
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