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Fragments And Foreignness In Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Cutter Mendenhall
Fragments And Foreignness In Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Cutter Mendenhall
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This analysis investigates Claudia Rankine’s redefinition of foreignness as the fragmenting force of microaggressions that splinters the African American identity. This fragmentation has implications that shatter and reconstruct the traditional understanding of the African American self, the source and fallacies of both white and black anger, and what it means to be native to mainstream American society. Ultimately, Rankine asserts that the foreignizing nature of microaggressions is a socially constructed form of oppression. This foreignness breaks the African American identity into easily accessible subhuman caricatures that leave the black identity in a ruptured state of cognitive dissonance. While making coherence …
Forum Prompt: Approaching Indigeneity, Learning Modernity, Christine Bold
Forum Prompt: Approaching Indigeneity, Learning Modernity, Christine Bold
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Sun Dance Opera: A Call For Native Survivance, Lorin Groesbeck
The Sun Dance Opera: A Call For Native Survivance, Lorin Groesbeck
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Stepping Out Of Photographs: Stopping The Myth Of The Vanishing Native Through Reclaiming Personhood In The Edward Curtis Project, Mari Murdock
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley
A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper proposes that the motif of starvation in Zitkala-Ša’s 1921 short story, “The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman,” is in fact a metaphor for the dispossession of Native American lands and its disastrous effects on Native American livelihood and culture. Though much scholarship has been done on sentimental rhetoric in Zitkala-Ša’s fiction, critics have not yet explored its connection to this the most immediate Zitkala-Ša’s concerns. This essay first unpacks letters from Zitkala-Ša’s personal archives to demonstrate her individual interest in dispossession, and then examines “Blue-Star Woman’s” ever-present language of hunger through this lens of land loss. In doing …
Bloodland: A Holistic Approach To Contemporary Reclamation Of Native Female Power, Anna Kendall
Bloodland: A Holistic Approach To Contemporary Reclamation Of Native Female Power, Anna Kendall
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
“Nourished By My Mother”: Zitkala-Ša And The Indian Sterilization Project, Lainey Wardlow
“Nourished By My Mother”: Zitkala-Ša And The Indian Sterilization Project, Lainey Wardlow
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.