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In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of “Indianness,” and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government’s criminalization of traditional forms of Diné marriage and sexuality, the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalization, Hawai‘i’s same-sex marriage bill, and stories of Indigenous women falling in love with non-human beings such as animals, plants, and stars. Following the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism across these diverse historical and cultural contexts, the contributors question and reframe the thinking about Indigenous knowledge, nationhood, citizenship, history, identity, belonging, and the possibilities for a decolonial future.Contributors. Jodi A. Byrd, Joanne Barker, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Mishuana Goeman, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Melissa K. Nelson, Jessica Bissett Perea, Mark Rifkin
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Critically Sovereign -- 1. Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization -- 2. Return to “The Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913” -- 3. Ongoing Storms and Struggles -- 4. Audiovisualizing Iñupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice -- 5. Around 1978 -- 6. Loving Unbecoming -- 7 Getting Dirty -- Contributor Biographies -- Index