Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack's American Indian and queer studies

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 599-613

  Schneider, Bethany ^a  

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EID: 65849494845     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2007-018     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Womack is only one of many scholars, Native and non-Native, and only one of many Native novelists, poets, and playwrights, who are thinking and writing queer and American Indian studies together. I choose to think in his wake here not to privilege him but simply because his work has been knocking about in my mind for a long time, enabling and challenging me on many levels. Other scholarship includes Paula Gunn Allen, "Beloved Women: Lesbians in American Indian Cultures," Conditions: Seven 3.1 (Spring 1981): 67-87;
2. Beth Brant, "From the Inside - Looking at You," Canadian Woman Studies - Les Casiers de la Femme 14.1 (Fall 1993): 16-17;
3. Beth Brant, "Giveaway: Native Lesbian Writers," Signs 18.4 (Summer 1993): 944-47;
4. Daniel Cornell, "Woman Looking: Revis(ion)ing Pauline's Subject Position in Louise Erdrich's Tracks," Studies in American Indian Literatures 4.1 (Spring 1992): 49-64;
5. Peter Dickinson, Here Is Queer: Nationalisms, Sexualities, and the Literatures of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999);
6. Janice Gould, "Disobedience (in Language) in Text by Lesbian Native Americans," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 25.1 (January 1994): 32-44;
7. Beatrice Medicine, Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native": Selected Writings (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001);
8. Deborah Miranda, "Dildos, Hummingbirds, and Driving Her Crazy: Searching for Native American Women's Erotics," Frontiers 23.2 (2002): 135-149;
9. Michael Moon, "Whose History? The Case of Oklahoma," in A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Martin Duberman (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 24-34;
10. Tara Prince-Hughes, "Contemporary Two-Spirit Identity in the Fiction of Paula Gunn Allen and Beth Brant," SAIL 10.4 (Winter 1998): 9-31;
11. and Annette VanDyke, "The Journey Back to Female Roots: A Laguna Pueblo Model," in Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Racial Revisions, ed. Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgow, and Catherine Stimpson (New York: New York University Press, 1990).
12. Craig Womack, Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 12. Hereafter cited parenthetically by page number as Red on Red.
13. Michael Moon very usefully stages Oklahoma as particularly suited to thinking the differing alterities of queer and Indian together in his "Whose History? The Case of Oklahoma," 24-34.
14. Teresa de Lauretis, "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities," differences 3.2 (1991): iii-xviii, iv.
15. For scholarship on American Indian cultures and gender diversity, see Evelyn Blackwood, "Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes: The Case of Cross-Gender Females," Signs 10.1 (1984): 27-42;
16. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, eds., Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997);
17. Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998);
18. Will Roscoe, Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998);
19. and Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986).
20. Craig Womack, "Howling at the Moon: The Strange but True Story of My Life as a Hank Williams Song," in As We Are Now: Mixedblood Essays on Race and Identity, ed. William S. Penn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 28-49. Hereafter cited parenthetically by page number as "Howling."
21. Michel Foucault, "Friendship as a Way of Life," in Michel Foucault: Ethics, Subjectivity, and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: New Press, 1994), 136.
22. Jimmie Durham, "Geronimo!" in Partial Recall, ed. Lucy R. Lippard (New York: New Press, 1992), 57.
23. Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978), 124-25.
24. José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999);
25. Siobhan B. Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000);
26. and Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
27. Muñoz, Disidentifications, 115.
28. Womack is tapping into a discussion of American Indian sovereignty as a future- and community-oriented process that is of long standing. See Vine Deloria Jr., We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf (New York: Macmillan, 1970);
29. Jace Weaver, That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997);
30. and Robert Allen Warrior, Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). It is a discussion that Womack continues to theorize in Red on Red.
31. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 50-52.
32. Jonathan Goldberg, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992).
33. Mark Rifkin, "Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories," GIQ 12.1 (Winter 2006): 27-59.
34. Goldberg, Sodometries, 183.
35. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
36. Kathryn Bond Stockton, "Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child: The Ghost, the Homosexual, the Freudian, the Innocent, and the Interval of Animal," in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children, ed. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 280.