Carrying the Burden of Peace : Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story
ISBN: 9780816542840
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Arizona Press
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Subjects: Literature;

Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honor song--one that celebrates, rather than pathologizes; one that seeks diversity and strength; one that overturns heteropatriarchy without centering settler colonialism? Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities even be creative, inclusive, erotic?

Sam McKegney answers affirmatively. Countering the perception that masculinity has been so contaminated as to be irredeemable, the book explores Indigenous literary art for understandings of masculinity that exceed the impoverished inheritance of colonialism.

Carrying the Burden of Peace weaves together stories of Indigenous life, love, eroticism, pain, and joy to map the contours of diverse, empowered, and non-dominant Indigenous masculinities. It is from here that a more balanced world may be pursued.

Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures and a professor in the Department of English at Queen's University in the territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Peoples.

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