{"id":47903,"date":"2016-06-23T19:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47903"},"modified":"2016-06-23T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T19:45:13","slug":"the-optics-of-interracial-sexuality-in-adrian-tomines-shortcomings-and-sherman-alexies-the-lone-ranger-and-tonto-fistfight-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47903","title":{"rendered":"The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine\u2019s Shortcomings and Sherman Alexie\u2019s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2014.0004\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Shortcomings<\/strong><em><strong> and Sherman Alexie\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/215\" target=\"_blank\">College Literature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/29368\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 119-148<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2014.0004\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/lit.2014.0004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joliesheffer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jolie A. Sheffer<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies<br \/>\n<em>Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay focuses on the racial and sexual politics undergirding interracial relationships between men of color and white women. <a href=\"http:\/\/fallsapart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrian-tomine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomine\u2019s<\/a> works reveal how legal and cinematic histories of interracial romance continue to shape ethnic men\u2019s sense of individual and community identity. An example of comparative ethnic-studies scholarship, this essay explores how minority subjects in the US are shaped by distinct racial logics. Alexie\u2019s collection reflects the influence of the cinematic tropes of the Western and the history of US government attempts to weaken tribal ties on contemporary Native American male characters. Tomine\u2019s graphic novel reveals the racial and sexual conventions of mainstream pornography and the individualist logic of the model minority myth on Asian-American men. Both authors suggest that queerness functions as an alternative ethical relation between parties, one grounded in equality rather than domination and relatively free of the visual logic of racialization.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/536299\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine\u2019s Shortcomings and Sherman Alexie\u2019s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven College Literature Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1353\/lit.2014.0004 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio This essay focuses on the racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,3015,20],"tags":[24271,3812,12099,12100,7343],"class_list":["post-47903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-adrian-tomine","tag-college-literature","tag-jolie-a-sheffer","tag-jolie-sheffer","tag-sherman-alexie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47904,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903\/revisions\/47904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}