Michelle Raheja
Biographic Data
| ID | 459351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Raheja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Raheja |
| SIGNATURE | RAHEJA M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
He is a Morfidite and Needs a Man
This essay focuses on queer Indigenous life in the early twentieth century through an analysis of the archive of Nabor Feliz, an Indigenous sculptor who toured with major circuses. In the essay, the author employs queer critique and Indigenous theory to contend that the circus offered Feliz opportunities for Indigenous expressions of sexuality that might not have been otherwise afforded them in this period. The essay is based on an examination of…
Imagining Indigenous Digital Futures: An Afterword
Imagining Indigenous Digital FuturesAn Afterword Michelle Raheja As I sit writing in my kitchen while the forces of the U.S. military state are brought to bear on thousands of Standing Rock water stewards and land protectors and their allies in Cannonball, North Dakota, I consider how this sail special issue on digital Indigenous studies not only represents a collection of essays about the critical work Indigenous women are performing in their va…
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)" puts ethnography and cinematic representations of Native Americans in crucial dialogue with the work of contemporary indigenous filmmakers. The author explores what it means for indigenous people "to laugh at the camera" as a tactic of what she calls "visual sovereignty," to confront the spectator with the often absurd assumptions th…
Literary Sovereignties: New Directions in American Indian Autobiography
Autobiography has had many functions in American Indian communities: as a powerful means of constructing tribal identities; a form of cultural preservation; a mode of surveillance in the hands of reservation and government agents; a springboard for thinking about issues of sovereignty, nationalism, and historiography; and a therapeutic tool to help deal with historical and personal trauma. Traditional forms of self-life narration existed prior to…
“I leave it with the people of the United States to say”: Autobiographical Disruption in the Personal Narratives of Black Hawk and Ely S. Parker
In Craig Womack’s Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, Jim Chibbo carries on an epistolary dialogue with his pal Hotgun in a humorous, trickster-inspired Creekified English (or Anglicized Creek) vernacular following each chapter. In these conversations Chibbo takes literary critics (including his alter ego, Womack) to task for work that maps non-Indian theories onto indigenous texts in ways that imply that indigenous writing is inferi…
Postindian Conversations (review)
Reviewed by: Postindian Conversations Michelle Hermann Raheja Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. Postindian Conversations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 189 pp. Cloth $25.00 Not only is he one of the most prolific contemporary Native American writers, Gerald Vizenor also publishes works in a dazzling number of genres. His works include over one dozen works of fiction, two histories of the Ojibwe, a film, several collections of haiku…
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)" puts ethnography and cinematic representations of Native Americans in crucial dialogue with the work of contemporary indigenous filmmakers. The author explores what it means for indigenous people "to laugh at the camera" as a tactic of what she calls "visual sovereignty," to confront the spectator with the often absurd assumptions th…
Postindian Conversations (review)
Reviewed by: Postindian Conversations Michelle Hermann Raheja Gerald Vizenor and A. Robert Lee. Postindian Conversations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 189 pp. Cloth $25.00 Not only is he one of the most prolific contemporary Native American writers, Gerald Vizenor also publishes works in a dazzling number of genres. His works include over one dozen works of fiction, two histories of the Ojibwe, a film, several collections of haiku…
Literary Sovereignties: New Directions in American Indian Autobiography
Autobiography has had many functions in American Indian communities: as a powerful means of constructing tribal identities; a form of cultural preservation; a mode of surveillance in the hands of reservation and government agents; a springboard for thinking about issues of sovereignty, nationalism, and historiography; and a therapeutic tool to help deal with historical and personal trauma. Traditional forms of self-life narration existed prior to…
“I leave it with the people of the United States to say”: Autobiographical Disruption in the Personal Narratives of Black Hawk and Ely S. Parker
In Craig Womack’s Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, Jim Chibbo carries on an epistolary dialogue with his pal Hotgun in a humorous, trickster-inspired Creekified English (or Anglicized Creek) vernacular following each chapter. In these conversations Chibbo takes literary critics (including his alter ego, Womack) to task for work that maps non-Indian theories onto indigenous texts in ways that imply that indigenous writing is inferi…
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)" puts ethnography and cinematic representations of Native Americans in crucial dialogue with the work of contemporary indigenous filmmakers. The author explores what it means for indigenous people "to laugh at the camera" as a tactic of what she calls "visual sovereignty," to confront the spectator with the often absurd assumptions th…
Imagining Indigenous Digital Futures: An Afterword
Imagining Indigenous Digital FuturesAn Afterword Michelle Raheja As I sit writing in my kitchen while the forces of the U.S. military state are brought to bear on thousands of Standing Rock water stewards and land protectors and their allies in Cannonball, North Dakota, I consider how this sail special issue on digital Indigenous studies not only represents a collection of essays about the critical work Indigenous women are performing in their va…
He is a Morfidite and Needs a Man
This essay focuses on queer Indigenous life in the early twentieth century through an analysis of the archive of Nabor Feliz, an Indigenous sculptor who toured with major circuses. In the essay, the author employs queer critique and Indigenous theory to contend that the circus offered Feliz opportunities for Indigenous expressions of sexuality that might not have been otherwise afforded them in this period. The essay is based on an examination of…
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