A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems

A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems
Author: Daniel David Moses
Publisher: Exile Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781550963014

Thoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. Through meticulously crafted portraits, lyrics, satires, mythologies, and meditations, these poems discuss issues related to perception, desire, youth, and aging as they relate to native life.

Masculindians

Masculindians
Author: Sam McKegney
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2014-02-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0887554423

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial questions about masculine self-worth and how to foster balanced and empowered gender relations. Masculindians captures twenty of these conversations in a volume that is intensely personal, yet speaks across generations, geography, and gender boundaries. As varied as their speakers, the discussions range from culture, history, and world view to gender theory, artistic representations, and activist interventions. They speak of possibility and strength, of beauty and vulnerability. They speak of sensuality, eroticism, and warriorhood, and of the corrosive influence of shame, racism, and violence. Firmly grounding Indigenous continuance in sacred landscapes, interpersonal reciprocity, and relations with other-than-human kin, these conversations honour and embolden the generative potential of healthy Indigenous masculinities.

The Queerness of Native American Literature

The Queerness of Native American Literature
Author: Lisa Tatonetti
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452943273

With a new and more inclusive perspective for the growing field of queer Native studies, Lisa Tatonetti provides a genealogy of queer Native writing after Stonewall. Looking across a broad range of literature, Tatonetti offers the first overview and guide to queer Native literature from its rise in the 1970s to the present day. In The Queerness of Native American Literature, Tatonetti recovers ties between two simultaneous renaissances of the late twentieth century: queer literature and Native American literature. She foregrounds how Indigeneity intervenes within and against dominant interpretations of queer genders and sexualities, recovering unfamiliar texts from the 1970s while presenting fresh, cogent readings of well-known works. In juxtaposing the work of Native authors—including the longtime writer–activist Paula Gunn Allen, the first contemporary queer Native writer Maurice Kenny, the poet Janice Gould, the novelist Louise Erdrich, and the filmmakers Sherman Alexie, Thomas Bezucha, and Jorge Manuel Manzano—with the work of queer studies scholars, Tatonetti proposes resourceful interventions in foundational concepts in queer studies while also charting new directions for queer Native studies. Throughout, she argues that queerness has been central to Native American literature for decades, showing how queer Native literature and Two-Spirit critiques challenge understandings of both Indigeneity and sexuality.

The Music of Time

The Music of Time
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691218862

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Indigenous North American Drama

Indigenous North American Drama
Author: Birgit Däwes
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438446616

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

In Defence of Theatre

In Defence of Theatre
Author: Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442630809

Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can and must play in professional, community, and educational venues."

Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Indigenous Poetics in Canada
Author: Neal McLeod
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1771120096

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place. Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous poetics. First, it explores the poetics of memory: collective memory, the persistence of Indigenous poetic consciousness, and the relationships that enable the Indigenous storytelling process. The book then explores the poetics of performance: Indigenous poetics exist both in written form and in relation to an audience. Third, in an examination of the poetics of place and space, the book considers contemporary Indigenous poetry and classical Indigenous narratives. Finally, in a section on the poetics of medicine, contributors articulate the healing and restorative power of Indigenous poetry and narratives.

Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature

Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature
Author: Jennifer McClinton-Temple
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 1566
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 1438140576

Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Indigenous Toronto

Indigenous Toronto
Author: Denise Bolduc
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1770566457

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD Rich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day. With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, and historians, this unique anthology explores the poles of cultural continuity and settler colonialism that have come to define Toronto as a significant cultural hub and intersection that was also known as a Meeting Place long before European settlers arrived. "This book is a reflection of endurance and a helpful corrective to settler fantasies. It tells a more balanced account of our communities, then and now. It offers the space for us to reclaim our ancestors’ language and legacy, rewriting ourselves back into a landscape from which non Indigenous historians have worked hard to erase us. But we are there in the skyline and throughout the GTA, along the coast and in all directions." -- from the introduction by Hayden King