Queering America: Joy Harjo's Vision of Radical Contingency

• Authors: Joan Burbick

Title variants

"Queerowanie” Ameryki: wizja radykalnej przygodności Joy Harjo

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

PL

Joan Burbick proponuje lekturę Jay Harjo z podwójnej perspektywy: queerowej i post-kolonialnej. Normatywny język społecznego scalenia zostaje zakwestionowany i przeformułowany przy pomocy kategorii szczególnych dla amerykańskich Indian, takich jak berdache. Wizja świata przedstawiona w poezji Harjo opiera się na radykalnej przygodności i pozornie „uduchowionej” kategorii przeniesienia.

• Publisher: InterAlia
• Journal: InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
• Year: 2008/2009
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 6

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

Joan Burbick

• Washington State University

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