Natives – Perry Nodelman

A Different Pair of Binaries

The aboriginal salt-and-pepper sets I’ve been describing in my latest group of posts are all gender-based. They all consist of of one male and one female–or to be more accurate in the light of their indulgence is stereotypes, one cliché-type brave and one cliché-type squaw–the poem on the female of the pair I looked at in myContinue reading “A Different Pair of Binaries”

More Wooden Verse

Here’s another set of aboriginal stereotypes, drawn on pieces of wood with some of their bark still attached, and described in some even more wooden verse. The usual markers, by now readily recognizable, are present: the hooked noses, the war bonnet, the headband, the braids. The wooden poems, not so readily readable from the photos,Continue reading “More Wooden Verse”