Abstract
In her article, “Hanay Geiogamah’s Body Indian and Foghorn as ‘Plays with a Purpose,’” written against the backdrop of critical whiteness studies, Danica Čerče discusses how Geiogamah’s theatrical rhetoric intervenes in the assumptions about whiteness as a static, privilege-granting category and system of dominance. By focusing on various techniques and strategies mobilized to define and affirm Native Americans’ authentic rather than imposed identities, the article shows that humor is one of the prime textual devices in Geiogamah’s plays to renegotiate what Walter Mignolo calls “the racist structure of power.”
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Čerče, Danica.
"Hanay Geiogamah’s Body Indian and Foghorn as “Plays with a Purpose”."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
22.4
(2020):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3430>
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