Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved
Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at od...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/11771801241241330 2024-06-23T07:52:50+00:00 Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri), Sandy Reardon-Smith, Han Blakers, Alana Miller, Teyah 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11771801241241330 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/11771801241241330 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/11771801241241330 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples volume 20, issue 2, page 289-297 ISSN 1177-1801 1174-1740 journal-article 2024 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801241241330 2024-06-11T04:31:27Z Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous representation, characters become reduced to type, frequently reduced to representations of belligerence and difference, or unsubtle complexity that would be challenged in a non-Indigenous queer character. In this article and through the findings of our project Queer As . . ., we argue that this results in fewer Indigenous characters named as queer, we discuss some of the difficulties of casting and being cast as these characters, and we interrogate how the presence of queer Indigenous characters can deliver a more complete retelling of the world. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SAGE Publications AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples |
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Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous representation, characters become reduced to type, frequently reduced to representations of belligerence and difference, or unsubtle complexity that would be challenged in a non-Indigenous queer character. In this article and through the findings of our project Queer As . . ., we argue that this results in fewer Indigenous characters named as queer, we discuss some of the difficulties of casting and being cast as these characters, and we interrogate how the presence of queer Indigenous characters can deliver a more complete retelling of the world. |
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Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved |
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Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved |
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