{"product_id":"our-fire-survives-the-storm-a-cherokee-literary-history-citizenship-and-sovereignty-edition-9781517920753","title":"Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe twentieth-anniversary edition of the path-clearing study of Cherokee writing in English, with an emphatic refocus on voices from the three Cherokee tribal nations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition of \u003ci\u003eOur Fire Survives the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly updated, nationhood-focused, twentieth-anniversary revision of Daniel Heath Justice's influential study of Cherokee writing in English. Through politically astute and historically grounded readings of diverse texts by citizens of the Cherokee Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Justice connects Cherokee literature to Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and collective futurity. \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Guided by a reparative vision that directly contends with the outdated literary legacies of the book's first edition, this revision confronts the ongoing harms of unsubstantiated and false Cherokee heritage claims on literary studies, replacing readings of primary texts by unverified claimants with those of Cherokee citizen writers. As Justice addresses issues of accountability, he engages with the past two decades of Indigenous scholarship, fully updating terminology, concepts, and scholarly resources. He expands and deepens the intellectual and historical context for Cherokee literary production introduced in the first edition, and he discusses Cherokee writing and community in the mid-twentieth century, the Cherokee Freedmen's long struggle for justice, and the future of Cherokee nationhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Highlighting the work of authors who illustrate the transformative collective discourses of what it means to be Cherokee, Justice examines the richness of Cherokee literary expression through motifs of roots, removal, and nationhood in traditional stories, speeches, legal and governance documents, memoirs, short stories, novels, and plays. An invitation to reflective criticism, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eOur Fire Survives the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is grounded in the belief that Indigenous nationhood is a necessary ethical response to the violence of the settler imaginary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Heath Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Indigenous Americas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517920753","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45199061057673,"sku":"9781517920753","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_de5b50c0-73c6-43f2-abf3-ea433381b63f.jpg?v=1769494490","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/our-fire-survives-the-storm-a-cherokee-literary-history-citizenship-and-sovereignty-edition-9781517920753","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}