Troubling Tricksters
Download Troubling Tricksters full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Troubling Tricksters ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Troubling Tricksters
Author | : Deanna Reder,Linda M. Morra |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2010-02-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1554582059 |
Download Troubling Tricksters Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), includes only a brief mention of the trickster, with skeptical commentary. And, in 2007, Anishinaabe scholar Niigonwedom Sinclair (a contributor to this volume) called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of Indigenous nations. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic’s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters, therefore, is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists’ call for cultural and historical specificity.
Troubling Tricksters
Author | : Deanna Reder,Linda M. Morra |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2010-02-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781554582907 |
Download Troubling Tricksters Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), includes only a brief mention of the trickster, with skeptical commentary. And, in 2007, Anishinaabe scholar Niigonwedom Sinclair (a contributor to this volume) called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of Indigenous nations. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic’s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters, therefore, is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists’ call for cultural and historical specificity.
Standing Up to Colonial Power
Author | : Renya K. Ramirez |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781496212689 |
Download Standing Up to Colonial Power Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Standing Up to Colonial Power focuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884-1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887-1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities. Mastering ways of behaving and speaking in different social settings and to divergent audiences, including other Natives, white missionaries, and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, Elizabeth and Henry relied on flexible and fluid notions of gender, identity, culture, community, and belonging as they traveled Indian Country and within white environments to fight for Native rights. Elizabeth fought against termination as part of her role in the National Congress of American Indians and General Federation of Women's Clubs, while Henry was one of the most important Native policy makers of the early twentieth century. He documented the horrible abuse within the federal boarding schools and co-wrote the Meriam Report of 1928, which laid the foundation for the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Together they ran an early college preparatory Christian high school, the American Indian Institute. Standing Up to Colonial Power shows how the Clouds combined Native warrior and modern identities as a creative strategy to challenge settler colonialism, to become full members of the U.S. nation-state, and to fight for tribal sovereignty. Renya K. Ramirez uses her dual position as a scholar and as the granddaughter of Elizabeth and Henry Cloud to weave together this ethnography and family-tribal history.
Opera Indigene Re presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures
Author | : Pamela Karantonis,Dylan Robinson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781317085416 |
Download Opera Indigene Re presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing the changing historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary practices of Indigenous and First Nations artists. The use of 're/presenting' in the title signals an important distinction between how representations of Indigenous identity have been constructed in operatic history and how Indigenous artists have more recently utilized opera as an interface to present and develop their cultural practices. This volume explores how operas on Indigenous subjects reflect the evolving relationships between Indigenous peoples, the colonizing forces of imperial power, and forms of internal colonization in developing nation-states. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, ethnomusicology, cultural geography and critical discourses on nationalism and multiculturalism, the collection brings together experts on opera and music in Canada, the Americas and Australia in a stimulating comparative study of operatic re/presentation.
The Trickster Figure in American Literature
Author | : Winifred Morgan |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137344724 |
Download The Trickster Figure in American Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Author | : Emily Snyder |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774835718 |
Download Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power relations. The majority of these resources either erase women’s legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish their agency by portraying Cree laws and gender roles in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and other forms of oppression.
That s Raven Talk
Author | : Mareike Neuhaus |
Publsiher | : University of Regina Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780889772335 |
Download That s Raven Talk Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Annotation A reading strategy for orality in North American Indigenous literatures that is grounded in Indigenous linquistic traditions.
The Trickster in Ginsberg
Author | : Katherine Campbell Mead-Brewer |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781476602967 |
Download The Trickster in Ginsberg Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This scholarly close reading of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" considers the iconic poem through a four-part trickster framework: appetite, boundlessness, transformative power and a proclivity for setting and falling victim to tricks and traps. The book pursues various different narratives of the trickster Coyote and the historical and biographical contexts of "Howl" from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. This study seeks to contribute to the current literature on the poetry of the Beats and of Allen Ginsberg, specifically his "Howl," and the ways it continues to expand in meaning, depth and significance today.