Imagining sovereignty : self-determination in American Indian law and literature / David J. Carlson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlson, David J., 1970- author.

Series:

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 66.

American Indian literature and critical studies series ; volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Politics and government.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Language.

American literature--Indian authors.

American literature.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Sovereignty" is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today-but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various and often competing claims to authority. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial power. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literary texts have generated politically significant representations of the world, which in turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause of tribal self-determination. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Grounding sovereignty discourse

Colonial contexts: tribal sovereignty in western and U.S. Indian law

The Indian vox populi

Collective politics and legal interpretation

Part II. Literary discourses of self-determination

The pragmatics of literary nationalism

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and treaty reading

Gerald Vizenor's constitutional praxis

Critical prospects: sovereignty in the Cahuilla storyway.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.

ISBN:

9780806151977

0806151978

OCLC:

923651082