Inter/nationalism: decolonizing native America and Palestine

Abstract

[...]putting nationalisms into conversation and gradually into collective practice' (xvi) is what he intends to do in this project of theorising Inter/nationalism. [...]the Israel Palestine dyad refers to a difference between the nation-state and the nation, in which the former embodies concentrated coercive power and the latter, the assemblage of communities. Despite the vast difference between US/Canadian and Israeli colonisation, there exists a particular transatlantic bond, what Hilton Obenzinger calls a 'Holy Land mania' (65) which preceded the nation-state in America and Palestine. [...]a 'boycott of statehood in the service of native nationhood' (59) is the purpose of BDS. The poem is exclusively devoted to 'a Palestinian/ no legs, one hand ... in the end he used/ his only hand/ to shoot at soldiers/ advancing/ on his house .', but the title of the poem is framed around a historical figure who was a Chiricahua Apache wounded fourteen different times defending his land (123)..In this way Native poetry regularly converses with Palestine, as in the poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Russell Means.