I Used to Think You Were Just a Story: Imagined Violence in Elle Máijá Tailfeathers A Red Girls Reasoning

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0707
Nama Orang :	Barrie, Hannah






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Proquest - Crime Justice and Cyber Criminology, 2020

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Abstrak	Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers 2012 short film A Red Girls Reasoning dismantles the narrative of colonial sexualized violence in its representation of the protagonist, Delia, enacting retributive violence against white men. Tailfeathers tense eleven-minute film depicts a First Nations woman seeking violent vengeance against white men who have sexually assaulted Indigenous women. This essay explores the political and transformative potential of such stories of revenge, examining A Red Girls Reasonings fictional representation of violence against the colonial oppressor alongside J. Halberstams discussion of imagined violence. I argue that this story of violent revenge is productive in its utopic depiction of a counterreality and futurity that destabilizes the relationship between imagination and reality, while simultaneously representing the ongoing community-based resistance of Indigenous women. A Red Girls Reasoning illustrates both an alternative present and vision for a decolonized future that are politically productive, depicting a space of violence that challenges both the white male rapist and the colonial white heteropatriarchal state that protects him. This argument is complicated by narratives of non violence and forgiveness, but ultimately, I propose that imagined violence is a decolonial intervention, effective in its moral complexity and in its refusal to provide tidy ethical answers about the violence that it represents.
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	Imagined violence, Indigenous futurity, decolonization, colonial sexualized violence, decolonial intervention, counterreality, ethic of non-violence
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Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0707
Entri Sumber Data	Proquest - Crime Justice and Cyber Criminology
Entri Utama Nama orang	Barrie, Hannah
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 21, no. 7, p. 110-121
Entri Utama Nama Badan
Barcode	eja-21-0707
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	I Used to Think You Were Just a Story: Imagined Violence in Elle Máijá Tailfeathers A Red Girls Reasoning
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional