“i am / virus to the system”: Indigiqueer Abjection and the Queering of Language in Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed

Arianne  Des Rochers

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

“i am / virus to the system”: Indigiqueer Abjection and the Queering of Language in Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed

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Submitted: January 26, 2022
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Des Rochers, A. . (2022). “i am / virus to the system”: Indigiqueer Abjection and the Queering of Language in Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 23–42. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32732

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[1] Basile, Elena. “A Scene of Intimate Entanglements, or, Reckoning with the ‘Fuck’ of Translation.” Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory, Practice, Activism, edited by Brian James Baer and Klaus Kaindl, Routledge, 2018, pp. 26-37.

[2] Bataille, Georges. Œuvres complètes, tome 2 : Écrits posthumes 1922-1940. Gallimard, 1970.

[3] Belcourt, Billy-Ray. “Can the Other of Native Studies Speak?” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society, 1 Feb. 2016, decolonization.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/can-theother-of-native-studies-speak/.

[4] Belcourt, Billy-Ray. A History of My Brief Body. Hamish Hamilton, 2020.

[5] Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” 1993. Routledge, 2011.

[6] Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. U of Minnesota P, 2014.

[7] Driskill, Qwo-Li, et al. Introduction. Driskill et al., Queer Indigenous Studies, pp. 1-28.

[8] Driskill, Qwo-Li, et al editors. Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. U of Arizona P, 2011.

[9] Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke UP, 2004.

[10] Haque, Eve, and Donna Patrick. “Indigenous Languages and the Racial Hierarchisation of Language Policy in Canada.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 36, no. 1, 2015, pp. 27-41.

[11] Heller, Monica, and Bonnie McElhinny. Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History. U of Toronto P, 2017.

[12] Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2018.

[13] Justice, Daniel Heath, et al. Introduction. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 5-39.

[14] Kristeva, Julia. Pouvoirs de l’horreur. Éditions du Seuil, 1980.

[15] Lennon, Brian. In Babel’s Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States. U of Minnesota P, 2010.

[16] Maracle, Lee. My Conversations with Canadians. BookThug, 2017.

[17] Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life across the Borders of Settler States. Duke UP, 2014.

[18] Simpson, Audra. “The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty.” Theory & Event, vol. 19, no. 4, 2016.

[19] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.

[20] Vizenor, Gerald. “Aesthetics of Survivance: Literary Theory and Practice.” Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, edited by Gerald Vizenor, U of Nebraska P, 2008, pp. 1-23.

[21] Whitehead, Joshua. full-metal indigiqueer. Talonbooks, 2017.

[22] Whitehead, Joshua. Jonny Appleseed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.

[23] Whitehead, Joshua. “Poet Joshua Whitehead Redefines Two-Spirit Identity in Full-Metal Indigiqueer.” Interview by Rosanna Deerchild. Unreserved, CBC Radio, 15 Dec. 2017, www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/from-dystopian-futures-to-secret-pasts-check-out-these-indigenousstorytellers-over-the-holidays-1.4443312/poet-joshua-whitehead-redefines-two-spiritidentity-in-full-metal-indigiqueer-1.4447321.