Today we are talking about Andrea Smith's "Queer Theory and Native Studies" from a special issue in GLQ on Sexuality, Nationality and Indigeneity.
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Readings for next Tuesday:
4 ...as a Person
Readings:
- Feminist Review. "Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Close Kind"
- McMillen, Liz. "Berkley's Judith Butler Revels in Role of Troublemaker" (moodle)
FILM: clips from Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind and Examined Life
The Native as Infantile Citizen
"Within this colonial imaginary, the Native is an empty signifier that provides the occasion for Europe to remake its corrupt civilization" (Smith 52).
How does the "crying Indian" fit in with Smith's critique? With the normalizing logics of settler colonialism?
Can you tweet a summary of A Smith's article? How would you sum it up in 140 characters or less? Here are two of my quick attempts:
Some key terms:
- unsettling settler colonialism
- sovereignty
- subjectless critique
- normalizing logics of academia
- infantile citizen
- queer time: past/present/future
- queer as rejection? space for imagining new possibilities or rejecting existing ones?
- role of "tradition"
- reworking home
- identification/counter-identification/dis-identification
- shifting from politics of recognition to politics of responsibility/interrelatedness
- identity plus politics
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