Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review).

"Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State" by Kathryn Walkiewicz explores the intersection of Black and Indigenous studies through a literary method of analysis called "territorial hermeneutics." The book delves into the ways in which newspapers, plays, poems, and other printed materials in the nineteenth century contributed to U.S. placemaking and state formation. Walkiewicz's work challenges normative literary readings and aims to denaturalize the state by examining the interconnectedness of anti-Black violence and Indigenous genocide in the context of statehood campaigns. The book offers a nuanced perspective on Black and Indigenous struggles for territoriality and sovereignty, emphasizing the importance of understanding historical and contemporary anticolonial insurgencies." [Extracted from the article]