From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave

This essay foregrounds Indigenous critical perspectives on the history of photography in the U. S. West. It considers how two Native writers, Leslie Silko and Joy Harjo, resist the settler-colonial narrative of “vanishing” Indians in their multigenre texts. By narrating the “fugitive poses” staged b...

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Main Author: Audrey Goodman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2018-11-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/9305