Hey, I Still Can’t See Myself!: The Difficult Positioning of Two-Spirit Identities in YA Literature
2014; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 52; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bkb.2014.0040
ISSN1918-6983
Autores Tópico(s)Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
ResumoThis article explores the difficulties of presenting two-spirited individuals in textual form due to the amount of political, social, and spiritual complexity associated with this particular identity category. Utilizing personal statements from aboriginal and two-spirit-identified individuals as well as secondary sources from well-known academics, this essay interrogates two novels in its focus on the deconstruction of identity categories to better understand the two-spirit identity within each text.
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