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This essay closely examines the extant visual archive surrounding nineteenth-century Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson to argue that her gestural and sartorial aesthetics situate her within a transnational genealogy of American Delsartism, a turn-of-the-century literary, cultural, and kinesthetic movement closely tied to a bodily discourse of white bourgeois femininity. This bodily discourse offers new strategies for reading and understanding Johnson's cultural labour within transnational histories of modernist dance.The article won the 2021 Award for Outstanding Article from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
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