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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Main Author: Joan Burbick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego 2008-09-01
Series:InterAlia
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