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In Defense of Peripheral Narration: Fitzgerald Vs Hokeah in a Battle of Class, POV, and Power
Read more: In Defense of Peripheral Narration: Fitzgerald Vs Hokeah in a Battle of Class, POV, and PowerHave you heard of a book called The Great Gatsby? It’s written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Most folks read it in high school. I didn’t make it to high school (the last grade I completed was the sixth grade) so I didn’t read it until I was an adult (after I went on to obtain […]
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“Stunning” Novel Cover: Symbolic Representations in Post-Modern Art Forms
Read more: “Stunning” Novel Cover: Symbolic Representations in Post-Modern Art FormsThere are two questions I love most when it comes to talking about my debut novel. One has to do with the structure, with it’s polyvocality laid atop time jumps spanning three decades, and the other has to do with the cover. It’s a striking image. An image that conveys perfectly the post-modern fracture experienced […]
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What it Means to Write Decolonization Literature & Why Native Writers Must Not Be Silenced
Read more: What it Means to Write Decolonization Literature & Why Native Writers Must Not Be SilencedThe process of decolonization. We hear this a lot, and if you’ve taken a Native studies class then you’ve likely thought about this in different aspects of society. So what does this look like in literature? I’d like to take a close look at decolonization and talk about the importance of allowing people of color […]
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Vernacular, Agency, & Intersectionality of Language Transformation
Read more: Vernacular, Agency, & Intersectionality of Language TransformationGrowing up in households where words and phrases in both Kiowa and Cherokee were spoken and mixed with English, it gave me a unique understanding of language. As my family spoke, someone could be both skaw-stee and mon’sape. Skaw-stee is a Cherokee word that means “stuck up,” and mon’sape is a Kiowa word that means […]
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Oscar Hokeah 