Two-spirit identities in Canada: Mapping sovereign erotic in Joshua Whitehead’s "Jonny Appleseed"
In colonial times, mapping the New World functioned as an inherent mechanism of exerting colonial domination over Indigenous lands, enacting settler presence on these territories. While the colonial cartographies projected ownership, the non-normative mappings emerging from Aboriginal writing provid...
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ftmickiewiczuni:oai:repozytorium.amu.edu.pl:10593/26125 2023-07-30T04:03:31+02:00 Two-spirit identities in Canada: Mapping sovereign erotic in Joshua Whitehead’s "Jonny Appleseed" Siepak, Julia 2020 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26125 https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0024 eng eng Studia Anglica Posnaniensia vol. 55, 2020, pp. 495-515 doi:10.2478/stap-2020-0024 https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26125 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Two-Spirit Indigiqueer queer Indigenous studies Indigenous literature First Nations literature sovereign erotic Artykuł 2020 ftmickiewiczuni https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0024 2023-07-17T18:33:54Z In colonial times, mapping the New World functioned as an inherent mechanism of exerting colonial domination over Indigenous lands, enacting settler presence on these territories. While the colonial cartographies projected ownership, the non-normative mappings emerging from Aboriginal writing provide an alternative to settler Canadian geography. This article focuses on the imaginative geographies depicted in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed (2018), which recounts the story of a young Two-Spirit man who searches for his identity in-between the reserve and the city. The objective of the analysis is to tie the representation of the contemporary queer Indigenous condition with the alternative mappings emerging from Whitehead’s novel. In order to address the contemporary Two-Spirit condition in Canada, the article applies current theories proposed by the field of queer Indigenous studies, including the concept of sovereign erotic, which further allows the presentation of the potential of Two-Spirit bodies to transgress colonial cartographies. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations AMUR - Adam Mickiewicz University Repository, Poznan Canada Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 55 s2 495 515 |
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In colonial times, mapping the New World functioned as an inherent mechanism of exerting colonial domination over Indigenous lands, enacting settler presence on these territories. While the colonial cartographies projected ownership, the non-normative mappings emerging from Aboriginal writing provide an alternative to settler Canadian geography. This article focuses on the imaginative geographies depicted in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed (2018), which recounts the story of a young Two-Spirit man who searches for his identity in-between the reserve and the city. The objective of the analysis is to tie the representation of the contemporary queer Indigenous condition with the alternative mappings emerging from Whitehead’s novel. In order to address the contemporary Two-Spirit condition in Canada, the article applies current theories proposed by the field of queer Indigenous studies, including the concept of sovereign erotic, which further allows the presentation of the potential of Two-Spirit bodies to transgress colonial cartographies. |
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