Healing the Hauntings: A Discourse Analysis of Grief in Two-Spirit Poetry

 

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Autor: Bradley, Mónica
Médium: artículo original
Stav:Versión publicada
Datum vydání:2023
Popis:This paper provides a discourse analysis of two poems selected from the book Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (Driskill et al., 2011b) to explore the concept of grief in Two-Spirit/Queer Indigenous poetry. It analyzes the diction, voice, formality, themes, metaphors, similes, personification, and the use of repetition the authors utilize to represent grief and discover the social, cultural, and political realities and discursive practices behind the poems. It concludes that through their expression of grief, the poets highlight the emergence and endurance of a community and people who will continue to fight for survival and the right to live in peace and harmony outside of colonial gender and sexual binaries. Both poems engage with a continuing sense of Two-Spirit identity that call forth new generations of Queer Indigenous/Two-Spirit people while remembering their history and the Elders who came before to heal personal and historical trauma often through connection with nature, their ancestors, and spirituality.
Země:Portal de Revistas UCR
Instituce:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Jazyk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/57323
On-line přístup:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/57323
Klíčové slovo:Indigenous literatures
two-spirit
queer indigenous
poetry
grief
literaturas indígenas
biespíritu
indígena queer
poesía
duelo