The world, the text, and the Indian : global dimensions of Native American literature / edited by Scott Richard Lyons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyons, Scott Richard, editor.

Series:

Native traces

SUNY series, Native Traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Indian authors--Political and social views.

Indian authors.

Indians--Attitudes.

Indians.

Indians in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Colonization in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Political and social views.

American literature--Indian authors.

Physical Description:

xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural production. For the past few decades the dominant framework has been nationalism, a critical perspective placing emphasis on specific tribal nations and nationalist concepts. White this nationalist intervention has produced important insights and questions regarding Native American literature, culture, and politics, it has not always attended to the important fact that Native texts and writers have also always been globalized. The World, the Text, and the Indian breaks from this framework by examining Native American literature not for its tribal-national significance but rather its connections to global, transnational, and cosmopolitan forces. Essays by leading scholars in the field assume that Native American literary and cultural production is global in character; even claims to sovereignty and self-determination are made in global contexts and influenced by global forces. Spanning from the nineteenth century to the present day, these analyses of theories, texts, and methods-from trans-indigenous to cosmopolitan, George Copway to Sherman Alexie, and indigenous feminism to book history-interrogate the dialects of global indigeneity and settler colonialism in literary and visual culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface / Jace Weaver

Introduction: globalizing the word / Scott Richard Lyons

Empire treasons: white earth and the Great War / Gerald Vizenor

Native American literary criticism in global context / Arnold Krupat

"Between friends and enemies": moving books and locating native critique in early colonial America / Matt Cohen

Search engine: traversing the global and the local in the native archive / Phillip H. Round

Migrations to modernity: the many voices of George Copway's Running sketches of men and places, in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Scotland / Scott Richard Lyons

Emerging from the background: photographic conventions and the stereotype of the Indian / Kate Flint

Reading global indigenous resistance in Simon Ortiz's Fight back / Eric Cheyfitz

Productive tensions: trans/national, trans-/indigenous / Chadwick Allen

"The right to enjoy all human rights": the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and the potential for decolonial cosmopolitanism / Elvira Pulitano

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: World, the text, and the Indian.

ISBN:

9781438464459

1438464452

OCLC:

961801055

Publisher Number:

99973633649