Picturing worlds : visuality and visual sovereignty in contemporary Anishinaabe literature /

Stirrup, David,

Picturing worlds : visuality and visual sovereignty in contemporary Anishinaabe literature / David Stirrup. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource - American Indian studies series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. An Indian Well Versed: (Con)Textualizing Anishinaabeakiing-George Copway and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft -- Chapter 2. X-ing Boundaries: Transmotion, Transformation, and the Art of Engaged Resistance in Contemporary Anishinaabe Poetics -- Chapter 3. Reckoning Beyond the Crossing/X-ing: Formal Diversity and Visual Sovereignty in Gordon Henry Jr.'s The Light People -- Chapter 4. Picturing Absence and Postcolonial Presence: Unsettling a Colonial Grammar in Selected Works by Louise Erdrich Chapter 5. So, How Can You Hear Stones and Pictures? Gerald Vizenor's Imagic Returns -- Chapter 6. Performance, Resistance: Countering the indian and Sovereign Aesthetics in Contemporary Anishinaabe Drama -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Picturing Worlds examines the uses that a range of Anishinaabe authors make of art and artists. It examines the ways these authors establish frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that "space" where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture"--



9781609176266


Material culture in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
Ojibwa literature--History and criticism.


Electronic Books.

PM853 / .P538 2020