UNSETTLING AMERICA: MODERN SEXUALITY AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 271, Issue 259
Abstract
The colonization and settlement of the Americas is a story of cultural imperialism, violence, and destruction. Recent interventions in the field of Native studies have argued that the conquest of Native peoples and the nationalist enterprise that entailed the sexual colonization of Native peoples can be understood as «terrorizing» acts which produced a «colonial necropolitics that framed Native peoples as queer populations marked for death» (Morgensen). Rather than framing Indigenous experience as ongoing victimization and acts of extinction as a form of «necropolitics» (Mbembe), my paper will analyze recent literary and cultural productions that criticize queerphobia, colonialism, and racism as part of transnational decolonial struggles. In particular, I would like to look into the alliances between Indigenous and Queer Studies and present a series of cultural productions by so-called Two-Spirit artists. Among others, I want to present a series of paintings and images by First Nation multi-disciplinary artist Kent Monkman. Arguing that settler colonialism is a central condition of the history of sex/gender in North America as well as the formation of the state, which was based on normalized heterosexuality, I want to argue that the biopolitics of settler colonialism entails forms of terrorizing sexual colonization of Native peoples, which, in turn, has brought about modern sexuality as a function of settlement by relationally producing Native and settler sexual subjects
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Astrid M. Fellner
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