From the Editors

This issue of SAIL contains articles on several of the field's most celebrated authors and a review of the work of one of their more neglected contemporaries. Alex Hollenberg offers a Canadian's understanding of the intellectual challenges of "separatism" in Craig Womack's work, one informed by the ever-present rhetoric of Quebec separatism in Canada. J. James Iovannone examines transgendered performances in Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Four Souls, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. Iovannone's article is a provocative contribution to and intervention in the critical conversation about how Erdrich theorizes gender in her novels. Stephanie Li investigates the politics of gardening, along with mothering and storytelling, as domestic resistance to colonialism in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes, while Arnold Krupat's introduction to Ralph Salisbury's new book, Light from a Bullet Hole: New and Selected Poems, 1950–2008, honors the healing poems of a "Cherokee humanist and Indigenous cosmopolitan." This review reminds us, too, of our responsibility to listen with vigilance to all the Indigenous voices that have spoken and are now speaking.

We hope that between the moment we write these words and the moment you read them that we have visited with each other at the Native American Literature Symposium in Albuquerque or, perhaps, at another conference, symposium, or kitchen table.