Picturing Worlds

Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-61186-352-9
Verlag: Michigan State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: American Indian Studies

Taking up Lisa Brooks’s notion of “spinning the binary” between oral and literary forms and Christopher Teuton’s explication of the graphic mode, this book examines the uses that a range of Anishinaabe authors make of art and artists. Arguing that the mark on a surface - whether it be an ancient pictograph or a contemporary painting - intervenes, in the works under scrutiny, in such artificial divisions as precolonial/oral and postcontact/alphabetically literate societies, the text examines the ways Anishinaabe authors establish frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that “space” where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stirrup, David

Über Autor(innen)

David Stirrup is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.