Ethnic Studies Review
Orginal Publication Date
2009
Journal Title
Ethnic Studies Review
Volume
32
Issue
esr/vol32/iss1
First Page
30
Last Page
54
Abstract
By appropriating the power of writing of the phonetic Latin alphabet and recent visual technology, new generations of indigenous people from the Americas have been able to articulate and reinforce their own sense of identity from "within" their cultural constructs. In so doing, they have been shaping new narratives of indigenous adaptation and survival based on native ontologies and epistemologies that critically decolonize the homogenizing forces of national and global rhetoric. I argue that the texts under examination put forward ways to conceive and to know individual and communal identity that cannot be understood outside specific, ancient notions of territoriality and re/membering.
Rights
Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 2009
Comments
Ethnicity: Analyses of Cultural, Social & Political Trends