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Erotics of Sovereignty - Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination (Paperback)
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Erotics of Sovereignty - Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination (Paperback)
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In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal
Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and
displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now
on federal policy would promote "the Indian's sense of autonomy
without threatening his sense of community." In The Erotics of
Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin offers a telling perspective on what such
a policy of self-determination has meant and looks at how
contemporary queer Native writers use representations of sensation
to challenge official U.S. accounts of Native identity. Rifkin
focuses on four Native writers-Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), Deborah
Miranda (Esselen), Greg Sarris (Graton Racheria), and Chrystos
(Menominee)-approaching their fiction and poetry as forms of
political theory. Rifkin shows how the work of these queer or
two-spirit Native writers affirms the significance of the erotic as
an exercise of individual and community sovereignty. In this way,
we come to see how their work contests the homophobic, sexist, and
exclusivist policies and attitudes of tribal communities as well as
those of the nation-state.
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