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    Queer indigenous studies : critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature / edited by Qwo-Li Driskill [and others].

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    • Title:Queer indigenous studies : critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature / edited by Qwo-Li Driskill [and others].
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Driskill, Qwo-Li.
    • Published/Created:Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2011.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.
      Maori (New Zealand people)--Sexual behavior.
      Indigenous peoples--Sexual behavior.
      Queer theory.
      Criticism (Philosophy)
      Sexual minorities--Social conditions.
      Sexual minorities--Political activity.
      Sexual minorities--Intellectual life.
      Gender identity.
      Sex role.
    • Medical Subjects: Gender Identity
    • Description:vi, 249 pages ; 23 cm.
    • Series:First peoples (2010)
    • Summary:""This book is an imagining." So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogue--a "writing in conversation"--Among a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenous centered theories and methodologies. The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few. Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms. Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people "experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival," this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change."--Publisher's description.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780816529070 (paper : alk. paper)
      0816529078 (paper : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Section 1: Performing queer indigenous critiques
      Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native bull-dyke) : bringing "sexy" back and out of Native studies' closet / Chris Finley
      Queer theory and Native studies : the heteronormativity of settler colonialism / Andrea Smith
      A Queer caste : mixing race and sexuality in colonial New Zealand / Michelle Erai
      Fa'afafine notes : on Tagaloa, Jesus, and Nafanua / Dan Taulapapa McMullin
      section 2: Situating Two-Spirit and Queer indigenous movements
      Asegi Ayetl : Cherokee Two-Spirit people reimagining nation / Qwo-Li Driskill
      Exploring Takatapui identity within the Maori community : implications for health and well-being / Clive Aspin
      Two-Spirit men's sexual survivance against the inequality of desire / Brian Joseph Gilley
      Unsettling Queer politics : what can non-Natives learn from Two-Spirit organizing? / Scott Lauria Morgensen
      section 3: Reading Queer indigenous writing
      Indigenous fantasies and sovereign erotics : outland Cherokees write Two-Spirit nations / Lisa Tatonetti
      The erotics of sovereignty / Mark Rifkin
      Gifts of Maskihkîy : Gregory Scofield's Cree Métis stories of self-acceptance / June Scudeler
      The revolution is for everyone : imagining an emancipatory future through queer indigenous critical theories / Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen.
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