as the good graces would have it...
... my brain is still in working order! then again, i suppose women's nether regions aren't really accused of being master of the cerebellum.
i've got good ideas, i do. one small part of me thought, i better keep my intellectual properties off the internets. but then i realized what scant numbers actually attend to livejournal anymore, particularly my own. i mean, all i talk about is girlchicks and narrative theory. pretty much.
so, yeah.
I seek to illustrate how key philosophies exist within the contextual process of storytelling itself, to both frame and highlight any moral codes contained in the contents proper. These matters can be fruitfully considered in terms of the public sphere, to reveal how indigenous (primarily Anishinaabek) storytellers and authors both understand and navigate the codes and expectations therein. In particular, I wish to consider matters of cultural loyalty and advocacy. I will seek evidence of differences in public sphere relationships and how such tensions are handled. This brings in who and what is included as "the public". Using traditional stories, it becomes clear that the flora and fauna are vital members of the addressed and interactive world. This is at considerable odds with an anthropocentric worldview that is further segregated by racial, socioeconomic, and gendered ideologies. A major, and indeed teleologic, consequence of this limited public is the ease with which the validity of alternate understandings (and unincluded speakers/spoken- fors) can be dismissed. Earlier as savages, contemporarily as essentialists. Earlier as part of man's dominion, contemporarily as natural resources.
but that's just an eensy bit of beginning my musings of course. i foresee no difficulty in reaching the famed 300 page mark. i foresee much success - year of the tiger, begin!
i've got good ideas, i do. one small part of me thought, i better keep my intellectual properties off the internets. but then i realized what scant numbers actually attend to livejournal anymore, particularly my own. i mean, all i talk about is girlchicks and narrative theory. pretty much.
so, yeah.
I seek to illustrate how key philosophies exist within the contextual process of storytelling itself, to both frame and highlight any moral codes contained in the contents proper. These matters can be fruitfully considered in terms of the public sphere, to reveal how indigenous (primarily Anishinaabek) storytellers and authors both understand and navigate the codes and expectations therein. In particular, I wish to consider matters of cultural loyalty and advocacy. I will seek evidence of differences in public sphere relationships and how such tensions are handled. This brings in who and what is included as "the public". Using traditional stories, it becomes clear that the flora and fauna are vital members of the addressed and interactive world. This is at considerable odds with an anthropocentric worldview that is further segregated by racial, socioeconomic, and gendered ideologies. A major, and indeed teleologic, consequence of this limited public is the ease with which the validity of alternate understandings (and unincluded speakers/spoken- fors) can be dismissed. Earlier as savages, contemporarily as essentialists. Earlier as part of man's dominion, contemporarily as natural resources.
but that's just an eensy bit of beginning my musings of course. i foresee no difficulty in reaching the famed 300 page mark. i foresee much success - year of the tiger, begin!