The Corpse In The Kitchen Enclosure - Extraction

And the afterlives of the black hawk war Reassessing the archive of the black hawk war, the corpse in the kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism.While conventional histories of the black hawk war have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, adam john waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources specifically, mineral lead and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition.The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, lead drawn from the mines of the upper mississippi, contributed to the dispossession of indigenous peoples through the consolidation of u.S. Control over a vital military resource. Rendered as metallic type, mississippian lead contributed to the expansion of print culture, providing the occasion for literary justifications of settler violence, and promulgating the fiction of indigenous disappearance. Treating the theft and excarnation of black hawk's corpse as coextensive with processes of mineral extraction, waterman explores ecologies of racial capitalism as forms of inscription, documentary traces written into the land.Reading the terrestrial in relation to more conventional literary forms, he explores the settler fetishization of black hawk's body, drawing out homoerotic longings that suffuse representations of the man and his comrades.Moving from print to agriculture as modes of...

And the afterlives of the black hawk war Reassessing the archive of the black hawk war, the corpse in the kitchen explores relationships between the