Queering Native Literature, Indigenizing Queer Theory

Two analytical issues guaranteed to raise questions, eyebrows, hackles, and other bits and bobs are sex and nationhood, and both issues elicit a wide range of intellectual and emotional responses. The unstable tension between the public and private-and those texts, ideas, and acts variously deemed s...

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Published inStudies in American Indian literatures Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. xiii - xiv
Main Authors Justice, Daniel Heath, Cox, James H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 01.04.2008
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Alexie, Sherman (1966- )
Coding
Emotional Response
Essays
Feminism
Homophobia
Indigenous peoples
Literature
Native literature
Political alliances
Politics
Psychological Patterns
Scholarship
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Summary:Two analytical issues guaranteed to raise questions, eyebrows, hackles, and other bits and bobs are sex and nationhood, and both issues elicit a wide range of intellectual and emotional responses. The unstable tension between the public and private-and those texts, ideas, and acts variously deemed socially acceptable or deviant-is magnified in the complicated relationships between bodies and communities. Just as the increasing presence of Native literary studies in the academy has been fueled in part by broader intellectual, social, and political struggles of Indigenous peoples and their communities outside of academe, so too has queer theory emerged from similar currents of activism among feminists and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersexed, and allied critics.
ISSN:0730-3238
1548-9590
1548-9590
DOI:10.1353/ail.0.0003