Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature (American Indian Studies) - Softcover

David Stirrup (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161186352X ISBN 13: 9781611863529

Publisher: Michigan State University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Paying attention to the uses that Anishinaabe authors make of visual images and marks made on surfaces such as rock, bark, paper, and canvas, David Stirrup argues that such marks—whether ancient pictographs or contemporary paintings—intervene in artificial divisions like that separating precolonial/oral from postcontact/alphabetically literate societies. Examining the ways that writers including George Copway, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Gordon Henry, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and others deploy the visual establishes frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that space where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture. This book is a significant contribution to studies of the ways traditional forms of inscription support and amplify the oral tradition and in turn how both the method and aesthetic of inscription contribute to contemporary literary aesthetics and the politics of representation.

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About the Author

DAVID STIRRUP is Professor of American Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Kent.

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161186352X
• ISBN 13: 9781611863529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352