"Two Spirits, Nadleeh," and LGBTQ2 Navajo Gaze

Autor/in	Estrada, Gabriel S.
Titel	"Two Spirits, Nadleeh," and LGBTQ2 Navajo Gaze
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 35 (2011) 4, S.167-190 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Navajo (Nation); American Indians; Tribes; Homosexuality; Comparative Analysis; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; Cultural Influences; Feminism; Gender Issues; Activism; Films + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft; Homosexualität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Feminismus; Geschlechterfrage; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Film
Abstract	In reading queer Native American images, Lisa Tatonetti (2010) criticizes film in which the "boundaries of nation in indigenous contexts are constructed and maintained by the heteronormative gaze" that restricts lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2) representations. The author's own work differentiates the mere intersection of Native and queer representations from a two-spirit gaze by noting a two-spirit gaze's greater focus on traditionalist, nationalist, and activist representations of community-identified two-spirit images. Given a critical mass in two-spirit Navajo film and the strength of Navajo cultural, feminist, and gender activism, this article foregrounds Navajo LGBTQ2 gazes on two-spirit Navajo images. Through a comparative analysis of the Native LGBTQ2 representations in "Two Spirits, 2007 Miss Indian Transgender Arizona Crowned, An Aboriginal View with Aboriginal Dreams," and "I Am," this article foregrounds Navajo LGBTQ2 gazes that are culturally grounded, activist, and critical of US, Navajo, and Native American national heterosexisms. (Contains 1 figure and 68 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10