Blood narrative : indigenous identity in American Indian and Maori literary and activist texts / Chadwick Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Chadwick.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

New Zealand literature--Maori authors--History and criticism.

New Zealand literature.

Comparative literature--American and New Zealand.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--New Zealand and American.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Intellectual life.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Indian activists--Intellectual life.

Indian activists.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Indigenous peoples in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Compares the discourses of indigeneity used by Maori and Native American peoples and proposes the concept treaty discourse to characterize the relevant form of postcolonial situation.

Contents:

Introduction : marking the indigenous in indigenous minority texts

Part I : A directed self-determination

A marae on paper : writing a new Maori world in Te ao hou

Indian truth : debating indigenous identity after Indians in the war

Part II : An indigenous renaissance

Rebuilding the ancestor: constructing self and community in the Maori renaissance

Blood/land/memory : narrating indigenous identity in the American Indian renaissance

Conclusion : declaring a fourth world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9786613063311

9781283063319

128306331X

9780822383826

0822383829

OCLC:

245538645