Title & Plot
South represents the fertility of Harjo’s creative...
spirit
Joy Harjo is shown as calm and emotionally...
steady
In South, Harjo shows that healing is not a final ___.
(The Illusion of Closure)
endpoint / closure
Indigenous feminist criticism explains that Native women face a “double burden” of racism and...
patriarchy / sexism
Post-colonialism examines how Indigenous people reclaim their identity and fight back against...
colonial erasure
What does the birth of her daughter parallel to?
her poetic voice
Rather than ___, Harjo's voice is reflective and confident.
rushed or confused
Memory becomes communal rather than...
(Cyclical Memory and Spiritual Balance)
private
In South, Harjo’s “release” is choosing her own path over traditional male...
dominance
Harjo moves toward which place to reconnect with tribal roots and the American Indian Movement?
New Mexico
South is framed as a cyclical return to warmth rather than a linear...
finish line
Harjo accepts her past instead of trying to do what?
escape it
Creativity becomes spiritual ____ instead of emotional escape.
(Self as Inheritance)
grounding
Harjo shifts power away from “the men in charge” back to whose wisdom?
grandmothers
South is viewed as a site of historical trauma connected to which forced removal?
Trail of Tears
What internal struggle does Harjo battle in South?
Panic
Rather than ___, creativity becomes part of her everyday life.
reaction to crisis
South symbolizes balance instead of final what...
(Wisdom as Ethical Responsibility)
finality
Harjo relies on what concept as guidance in South?
The Knowing
Harjo uses which language (the colonizer’s tool) to express Muscogee spirituality?
English
How does Harjo transcend her fear?
putting down her paintbrush and starting to write
Harjo continues to grow without claiming full...
closure or resolution
Name TWO ways South is symbolized in the text.
spirals / migration / transformation / ancestral memory
Motherhood is presented as a position of power and what, rather than limitation?
responsibility
Discarding her colonial surname for a Muscogee one is described as an act of...
decolonization