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Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story

By Sam McKegney

Book information

Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780816537037, 2021931608
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2660946 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 09:34:04
LIT004060Literary CriticismNonfictionSOC000000SOC062000Sociology

Description

Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honor song—one that celebrates, rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic? Sam McKegney answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism. Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued.

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