Queer indigenous studies : critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Driskill, Qwo-Li
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Sexual behavior. Maori (New Zealand people) > Sexual behavior. Indigenous peoples > Sexual behavior. Queer theory. Criticism (Philosophy) Sexual minorities > Social conditions. Sexual minorities > Political activity. Sexual minorities > Intellectual life. Gender identity. Sex role.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: Performing queer indigenous critiques
Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native bull-dyke) : bringing "sexy" back and out of Native studies' closet / Chris Finley
Queer theory and Native studies : the heteronormativity of settler colonialism / Andrea Smith
A Queer caste : mixing race and sexuality in colonial New Zealand / Michelle Erai
Fa'afafine notes : on Tagaloa, Jesus, and Nafanua / Dan Taulapapa McMullin
section 2: Situating Two-Spirit and Queer indigenous movements
Asegi Ayetl : Cherokee Two-Spirit people reimagining nation / Qwo-Li Driskill
Exploring Takatapui identity within the Maori community : implications for health and well-being / Clive Aspin
Two-Spirit men's sexual survivance against the inequality of desire / Brian Joseph Gilley
Unsettling Queer politics : what can non-Natives learn from Two-Spirit organizing? / Scott Lauria Morgensen
section 3: Reading Queer indigenous writing
Indigenous fantasies and sovereign erotics : outland Cherokees write Two-Spirit nations / Lisa Tatonetti
The erotics of sovereignty / Mark Rifkin
Gifts of Maskihkîy : Gregory Scofield's Cree Métis stories of self-acceptance / June Scudeler
The revolution is for everyone : imagining an emancipatory future through queer indigenous critical theories / Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen.