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Trans-indigenous : methodologies for global Native literary studies / Chadwick Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Chadwick
- Series:
- Indigenous Americas.
- Indigenous Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Indians in literature.
- Indian aesthetics.
- Indians, Treatment of--United States--History.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- New Zealand literature--Māori authors--History and criticism.
- New Zealand literature.
- Māori (New Zealand people) in literature.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Group identity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency. Through demonstrations of distinct forms of juxtaposition-across historical periods and geographical borders, across tribes and nations, across the Indigenous-settler...
- Contents:
- Introduction: ands turn comparative turn trans-
- Recovery/interpretation. "Being" indigenous "now": resettling "the Indian today" within and beyond the U.S. 1960s
- Unsettling the Spirit of '76: American Indians anticipate the U.S. Bicentennial
- Interpretation/recovery. Pictographic, woven, carved: engaging N. Scott Momaday's "Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919" through multiple indigenous aesthetics
- Indigenous languaging: empathy and translation across alphabetic, aural, and visual texts
- Siting earthworks, navigating waka: patterns of indigenous settlement in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood run and Robert Sullivan's Star waka.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781452948423
- 1452948429
- 9780816682768
- 0816682763
- OCLC:
- 833767364
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