Individuality incorporated : Indians and the multicultural modern / Joel Pfister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfister, Joel.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--History--Sources.

White people--Relations with Indians.

White people.

Individualism--United States.

Individualism.

Indians in literature.

Indians in popular culture.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor.

Contents:

Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach

American Studies about the Rule of Individuality

PART ONE. Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals. 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers. Digesting "Indians": Assimilation as Individualizing. Possessive and Domestic Individualizing: Treason to the Tribe. Complexity, Critical Thinking, and Performance at Carlisle. Pratt's Carlisle (1879-1904): Class, Race, Warfare. Carlisle, Consumer Culture, and Loaded Cultural Relativism (1904-1918). Education for What? 2 The School of Savagery: "Indian" Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle. Literary Indianizing: Discourses of Native Cultural Subjectivity. Parodying Parroting: Faking Individual and Indian

PART TWO. Multicultural Modernity Incorporated. 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of "Lost" White Individuality. Toward Therapeutic Imperialism: Garland and the Modernizing of Digestion Management. White Therapeutic Primitivism and the Indian Business: Environmental, Soulful, and Literary "Indians." Giving Them the Business: "Indians" in the Therapeutic and Modernist Marketplace. Rhythmic Ethnomodernism: Luhan, Lawrence, Austin, and the Fantasy of Individualized Liberation in Tribal Scenes. "Indians" in the Bloodstream: The Politics of Lawrence's Psychological Critique of American Individualizing. 4 Indians Inc. Collier's New Deal Diversity Management. Collier's Saviourism: Radical Polemicist against Individualizing. Anti-Imperial Romanticism: Collier as Social Theorist of "Indians." Imperial Self-Government: Reorganizing "Indians." Detours from the Therapeutic: La Farge's and McNickle's Fictions. Taos, Collier, and the Multicultural Containment of Critique. Afterword: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization

Appendix 1. Notes on Natives and Socialism

Appendix 2. A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612921186

9781282921184

1282921185

9780822385660

082238566X

OCLC:

191222255