Overview

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differing Versions engages with Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 Almanac of the Dead as literature, prophecy, and philosophy. Reid Gmez makes ""The Indian Connection"" that Silko prophesizes-Land Back!-and offers a prescient response to Silko's enduring question: who has spiritual possession of the Americas? Realizing the great capacity of Black and Native studies, Gmez crafts a visionary mode of scholarship that resists acknowledging conceptual, political, spiritual, formal, or linguistic borders. Rather than comparing or separating, she demonstrates how to stop telling things apart: Black|Indian, slavery|colonization, and writing|translation. Gmez shifts focus from racialized identities to the prophesied world itself, working with music, literature, and language to elaborate the connections that exist between racialized bodies, land, and sea as she emphasizes the ubiquity of escape, revolt, and beauty/hzh. A theoretical composition, this book enacts a practice of re-visioning that uses Silko's Almanac to challenge the limits of thought, language, and the very idea of scholarship. Attending the multiplicity of time into times, past into pasts, future into futures, The Web of Differing Versions offers a new grammar for a shared and violent world. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

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Author:   Reid Gómez
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781517919757

ISBN 10:   1517919754
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface: Always Together, Always Told Apart Acknowledgments A Note on Translation and Orthography Quick Start Guide I Have a Story for That Kill Them, They Are Mortal In the Key of Almanac of the Dead: Five Hundred Year Map The Journey of the Ancient Almanac: An Elaborate Story Structure Garden Story: The Letter S The Oscillator In the Key of Tucson, Arizona Oceanstory: Landsea One of Us Black Lives, Red Earth, White Lies Hustle Monday Disco: Week 20 Hustle Monday Disco: Week 14 Slavery Broadcast: There Are No White People In the Key of the Indian Connection Slavery Broadcast: A Garden Story Stop Trying to Tell Me Things and Pull Garden Story: The Great Mystery Slavery Broadcast: The Texture of Hate Slavery Broadcast: The Gunadeeyah Clan Slavery Broadcast: We All Know Who We Are Slavery Broadcast: 1804 Complex Time Indigenous Revolt In the Key of Prophecy A Geronimo Story, a Long Time Ago Merciless Indian Savages Garden Story: DNA of Earth and Sky The House of Natasha Diggs The Key to the Future: Get Good on Purpose Urban Legend Paradise Ghost Dance: Angelita de La Noche Coda: Where Africa Ends and America Begins I Am Telling: A Neoslave Escape Story Notes Bibliography Discography

Reviews

""This book is a fugue of entangled voices, a genre-fluid refusal of the violence that would sever Black from Indian, story from method, or freedom from relation. Here, we dwell in the lush thicket of 'always together; always told apart, ' where story uncoils as a loom of new worlds--worlds spun from the shimmering, unruly threads of our collective becoming."" --Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism

""This book is a fugue of entangled voices, a genre-fluid refusal of the violence that would sever Black from Indian, story from method, or freedom from relation. Here, we dwell in the lush thicket of 'always together; always told apart,' where story uncoils as a loom of new worlds – worlds spun from the shimmering, unruly threads of our collective becoming."" —Marquis Bey, author of Black Trans Feminism ""The Web of Differing Versions offers a strikingly original and productively disorienting exploration of Indigenous (and Black) literature and life. The high degree of experimentation in this mesmerizing text invites readers to enter with openness as Reid Gómez lovingly weaves stories, songs, translations, and citations around a core analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. Gómez arrives at an exhilarating writing style – literary exegesis – that will challenge and inspire all who enter here."" —Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Author Information

Reid Gmez is assistant professor of gender and women's studies, American Indian studies, and social, cultural, and critical theory at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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