James Luna and the Paradoxically Present Vanishing Indian
James Luna’s performances interrogate how representations of Native Americans have been made to fit western assumptions about the “real Indian.” Using his recognizably Native body as a marker of both presence and endangered existence, Luna links Peggy Phelan’s conception of performance as the presen...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture |
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| Online Access: | http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/contemporaneity/article/view/170 |