Place as a storied event-in-process in Braiding sweetgrass and There there
Abstract
The notion that place may be conceptualized as a storied event-in-process is the crucial
premise of this literary exploration. The essay critically analyzes the storied memoir Braiding
Sweetgrass by Potawatomi scholar and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, and the novel There
There by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange, in order to understand the ways that
place is socialized and localized through habit, representation, narrative, and action in the texts
of these Native American activists. This comparative examination will demonstrate that
interpreting place as a storied, processual event enables possibilities for new representations of
identity and new imaginings of locality; the inquiry will also challenge the reader to actively and
intentionally participate in the storied event of place within the decolonizing frameworks
enunciated throughout the investigation.
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