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ERIC Number: EJ960105
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 24
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-6463
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"Two Spirits, Nadleeh," and LGBTQ2 Navajo Gaze
Estrada, Gabriel S.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v35 n4 p167-190 2011
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.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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