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Painted As Political: The Cultural Significance Within Zitkala-Ša’S Boarding School Narratives, Toni Aguiar
Painted As Political: The Cultural Significance Within Zitkala-Ša’S Boarding School Narratives, Toni Aguiar
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Zitkala-Ša was a Dakota writer, educator, and political activist who was and is widely influential within and outside of Native American communities during the twentieth century. As a child, Zitkala-Ša was sent to school at White's Indiana Manual Labor Institute, which spurred her writings in “School Days of an Indian Girl” recounting her experiences at the school and the struggles she faced. Though many scholars debate the activist choices she made in her later life as either pro or anti assimilation, some also extend this political criticism into her childhood experiences. My paper argues an alternative reading of these boarding …
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.