The Shoshoneans'da Edward Dorn'un Yerli Amerikan Anlayışı ve 'Garip Beyaz Temsilcisi' Bilinci
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Edward Dorn- The Shohoneans- ötekilik- öznellikÖz
Yerli Amerikalılar üzerine odaklanan kültürel çalışmalarda temsil ve araştırma (bilgi kaynağı, yerli bilgi, yöntem, vb.) konularının sorunsallaştırılması, 1960’ların devrimci düşüncesinin sonucu olarak ancak 1970’lerde gerçekleşebilmiştir. Bu sorgulama ve dönüşümün ürünü olan Edward Dorn’un The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin Plateau (1966) adlı belgesel çalışması ırk, kültür ve öznelliğe coğrafi ve tarihsel açıdan eleştirel yaklaşan ilk örneklerden biridir. Eser aynı zamanda kendini “meraklı solukbenizli” olarak tanımlayan şairin kültürel köken ve soy arayışının ifadesidir. Afrikalı Amerikalı fotoğraf sanatçısı Leroy Lucas’ın görsel dili ile yerli aktivist Clyde Warrior’ın konuşmalarına yer vermesi bakımından “dialogic,” yani çok sesli bir yapıya sahiptir. Amerika’nın Batısını sömürü coğrafyası olarak inceleyen Dorn, yerli halkın yaşamının da günü kurtarmaya indirgendiğini gözlemlemiştir. Devlet ve Shoshone halkı ile olan ilişkisini irdelerken Dorn aslında kendi “öteki”liğinin tanıklığını yapmaktadır. Genişletilmiş 2013 basımına kadar unutulmuş bir metin olan The Shoshoneans, öznelliğin ve ötekiliğin coğrafi-tarihsel incelemesi olması ve çok sesli yapısı bakımından önem taşımaktadır.
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