Mangled Coding: Class in the Poems of Santee Frazier

Authors

  • James Mackay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v3i2.6145

Keywords:

Cherokee poetry, Native American literature, signifiers of poverty in poetry, working-class poetry, food sovereignty, Indigenous studies

Abstract

Santee Frazier’s 2009 collection, Dark Thirty reveals a text that can be largely read in the genre context of Native American poetry, around signifiers of poverty. Though Frazier passionately denies that his poems are constructed on a thematic basis, his curation of them in this collection does nevertheless add up to a coherent argument for interpreting his characters’ lives as specifically working-class lives, subject to interlocking and international forces of capital, displacement and documentation in a surveillance state.

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Published

2018-12-01

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