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Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature

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Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature - Stirrup, David
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Taking up Lisa Brooks's notion of "spinning the binary" between oral and literary forms and Christopher Teuton's explication of the graphic mode, this book examines the uses that a range of Anishinaabe authors make of art and artists. Arguing that the mark on a surface intervenes in the works under scrutiny in such artificial divisions as precolonial/oral and postcontact/alphabetically literate societies, the text examines the ways Anishinaabe authors establish frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that ...

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Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature 2020, Michigan State University Press

ISBN-13: 9781611863529

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