Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History, Citizenship and Sovereignty Edition

"Taking inspiration from the mythic phoenix as a Cherokee model for reparative publishing, Daniel Heath Justice offers us this book as renewal. In this new edition and with the still burning embers of the old, Justice rekindles Our Fire Survives the Storm, a book that has become an Indigenous studies model for community-centered literary studies, to full flame. With clarity of voice and vision, he models the wisdom that comes from reflection, the importance of returning to intellectual roots, and the compassion to look unflinchingly at how Cherokee scholarship is ever-evolving, responsive, awake, and burning. Justice's full ethical and political voice can be heard on every page affirming the vitality and continuity that Cherokee literary contributions have made to Cherokee nationhood as he calls for future Cherokee sovereignty and community. This book is a revelation in revision and a testament to Justice's lasting contributions to Cherokee literary studies, nationhood, and sovereignty."-Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw), author of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

"Remarkable for its candor, clarity of analysis, and ethical commitments to Cherokee nationhood in literary scholarship, Our Fire Survives the Storm argues powerfully for centering Cherokee citizenship in the study of Cherokee literatures. Daniel Heath Justice's extensively revised edition of his groundbreaking original text offers us a timely model of literary analysis that honors Indigenous nationhood while attending to the complexities of Indigenous history and cultural study today."-Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation), coauthor of Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World