Stratégies du coeur et du corps. L'érotique souveraine dans la poésie autochtone féminine contemporaine de l'Amérique du Nord
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2017-07-08
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fr
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This thesis aims to show how the erotic and the body as they come to the fore in contemporary
poetry by Indigenous women writers from North America contribute to the process of
decolonization: in other words, more precisely, how does erotic poetry allow for reimagining
sovereignty? The studied authors denounce the
(sexual) violence that Indigenous women have suffered since the arrival of the Europeans; they
affirm their individual identities and desires; and they negotiate stereotypes and subvert colonial
discourse and languages.
We will show that sovereignty is not just created by the repossession of land, but
also, more importantly, by the reclamation of the female body and erotic that are at the core of
the poetry. This thesis also demonstrates
the lines of solidarity that are possible in spite of, or rather, thanks to incommensurability. The
use of Indigenous languages and Native mythology, the references to Christianity, and the
reappropriation of stereotypes are just a few of the strategies of disidentification (Muñoz), the
strategies of the heart and the body, that the authors employ to liberate the female Indigenous
body and erotic and to reimagine sovereignty.
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