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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Joy Harjo"”.
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"Dance your style!" : towards understanding some of the cultural significances of pow wow references in First Nations' literatures
… Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Joy Harjo's "Strange Fruit," Beth Cuthand's "Post-Oka Kinda Woman," Louise Halfe's "Ghost Dance, Patricia Monture-Angus' "ohkwa:ri ta:re tenhanonniahkwe and Annharte's "Saskatchewan Indians Were Dancing."
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(In)Visible
… of this paradox in their work, including Joy Harjo, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Fanny Howe, Adonis, Barbara Guest, H.D., and others. The essay engages poetry as a means of spiraling around the invisible, limitless center, and proposes, as a poetic …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
… poets Peter Blue Cloud, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, and Robert Hass use poetic language uniquely to engage with alterity in an ethical way, thus allowing it to retain its mystery and infinite nature? I argue that by keeping language alive in a way similar to a Levinasian saying, which …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… Philip K. Dick, Toni Morrison, Linda Hogan, and Joy Harjo. Species Panic is divided into five chapters, each of which organizes around a particular species of nonhuman animal: dogs, bulls, androids, cows, and horses. While this project’s first three chapters deal with the yoked constructions of …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
… Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Diane Glancy, and Joy Harjo. The study’s theoretical framework privileges indigenous voices by relying on a paradigm of reconciliation mapped by Native American activist and attorney Walter Echo-Hawk and by employing ethnographic research methods including an …
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Joy Harjo's Poetics of Transformation
For Muscogee Creek poet Joy Harjo, poetry is a real world force that can empower the reader by utilizing mythic memory, recovery of history, and a spiral journey to regain communal identity. Her poetic career transforms from early lyric poems to a hybridized form of prosody, prose, and myth to …