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dc.contributor.advisorValens, Kejaen_US
dc.contributor.authorCook, Jessica
dc.creatorCook, Jessicaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-22T17:58:49Z
dc.date.available2022-06-22T17:58:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-05en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/2548
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines texts by two queer Indigenous writers, Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree) and Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen), to consider how writing about the self—what the Western literary canon commonly terms “memoir” or “autobiography”—is a form of healing in the afterlife of settler-colonialism. Through close readings of Belcourt’s essay collection A History of My Brief Body and Miranda’s Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, this thesis explores how Belcourt and Miranda both invent and reclaim the Indigenous self through the construction of metaphorical mosaics which, in their assembled wholeness, reflect a kind of “living through” of colonialism. Within this framework, this thesis goes on to argue that the stories of the self crafted by Belcourt and Miranda effectively reconstruct the queer Indigenous embodied self, writing against the colonial imagination with assertions of non-heteronormative sexual desire.en_US
dc.titleMosaics Of Wholeness: Healing Through Queer Indigenous Self-Telling In Billy-Ray Belcourt’s A History Of My Brief Body And Deborah A. Miranda’s Bad Indiansen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.date.displayMay 2022en_US
dc.type.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
dc.subject.keywordIndigenousen_US
dc.subject.keywordqueeren_US
dc.subject.keywordsexualityen_US
dc.subject.keywordcolonialismen_US
dc.subject.keywordpostcolonialismen_US
dc.subject.keywordBilly-Ray Belcourten_US
dc.subject.keywordDeborah Mirandaen_US


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