The Queerness of Native American Literature

Queerness of Native American Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID19906263
AuthorsLisa Tatonetti (0000-0002-6682-2950, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIndigenous Americas (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/9781452943268
OpenAlexW4229819517
Open LibraryOL37416848M
ISBN9781452943268
LanguageEN
Citations received14

With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, this book provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, the text offers an overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. This book recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. It foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer-activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, the book proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies

Art · Art history · Genealogy · Human sexuality · Literature · Native american · Perspective (graphical) · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies

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