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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.