Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11272089 |
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| Authors | Kay Yandell (University of Arkansas ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 192-200 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlae037 |
| OpenAlex | W4401573578 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
A conversation with Winona LaDuke allowed Mohja Kahf to realize that Indigenous American decolonial resistance movements persist into our current era. This essay responds to Kahf’s critique of her novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) and investigates some common myths that teach Americans of all backgrounds the unspoken belief that Indigenous American decolonial resistance is ended and that multicultural narratives now bury previously existing Native decolonial narratives. This essay unearths purportedly buried decolonial narratives in Kahf’s novel by reading some of its references to Natives as emblems not only of Native history but also of contemporary Native decolonial survivance and resistance that persist to this day
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Girl · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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