We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i>
Artist and historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, Jeffery Darensbourg’s 2020 film with Fernando López features poetry in Ishakkoy, an indigenous language from what is now southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, composed during an artist residency at A Studio in the Woods. The companion essay shares...
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description | Artist and historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, Jeffery Darensbourg’s 2020 film with Fernando López features poetry in Ishakkoy, an indigenous language from what is now southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, composed during an artist residency at A Studio in the Woods. The companion essay shares some of the process of composing creative works in this language, and especially of writing centos, also known as patchwork or collage poems, during COVID-19 sequestration. |
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spelling | doaj.art-4201a4f43a62476fa5ad0eb6352eade22023-11-21T11:58:07ZengMDPI AGGenealogy2313-57782021-03-01522810.3390/genealogy5020028We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i>Jeffery U. Darensbourg0Enrolled Member Atakapa-Ishak Nation, New Orleans, LA 70119, USAArtist and historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, Jeffery Darensbourg’s 2020 film with Fernando López features poetry in Ishakkoy, an indigenous language from what is now southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, composed during an artist residency at A Studio in the Woods. The companion essay shares some of the process of composing creative works in this language, and especially of writing centos, also known as patchwork or collage poems, during COVID-19 sequestration.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/2/28Atakapa-IshakIshakkoylanguage reclamationindigenous poetryindigenous filmA Studio in the Woods |
spellingShingle | Jeffery U. Darensbourg We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> Genealogy Atakapa-Ishak Ishakkoy language reclamation indigenous poetry indigenous film A Studio in the Woods |
title | We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> |
title_full | We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> |
title_fullStr | We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> |
title_full_unstemmed | We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> |
title_short | We Are Together Now: Notes on the Film <i>Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy</i> |
title_sort | we are together now notes on the film i hoktiwe two poems in ishakkoy i |
topic | Atakapa-Ishak Ishakkoy language reclamation indigenous poetry indigenous film A Studio in the Woods |
url | https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/2/28 |
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