Queering America: Joy Harjo’s Vision of Radical Contingency
Joan Burbick reads Jay Harjo from a queering as well as post-colonial perspective, analyzing the way in which normative discourses of social cohesion are questioned and re-formulated from the vantage point of Native American categories such as the berdache. Harjo's vision promotes radical conti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
2008-09-01
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| Series: | InterAlia |
| Summary: | Joan Burbick reads Jay Harjo from a queering as well as post-colonial perspective, analyzing the way in which normative discourses of social cohesion are questioned and re-formulated from the vantage point of Native American categories such as the berdache. Harjo's vision promotes radical contingency and a seemingly spiritual notion of transference. |
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| ISSN: | 1689-6637 |