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Visual Images in Works from Kimberly Blaeser, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor
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https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.1191Abstract
The article sheds light on the relationship between visual representations and kinship, connection, and worldview present in work by three mixedblood Anishinaabe literary artists: White Earth band members Kimberly Blaeser and Gerald Vizenor and Turtle Mountain Chippewa Louise Erdrich. All three deploy words in multiple genres articulating an other way of knowing and being, a way rooted in Anishinaabe worldview, culture, and history. Blaeser's photographs in her 2019 volume of poetry Copper Yearning and elsewhere, Erdrich's drawings in her memoir Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003), and Vizenor's photographs in his mixed-genre The People Named the Chippewa (1984) complement and reenforce their words, and vice-versa.
p.s. I have a short video to accompany the article--it was too large to upload; the article can stand without it, if necessary. CL
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