When did Indians become straight? : kinship, the history of sexuality, and native sovereignty / Mark Rifkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rifkin, Mark, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

Indians in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Heterosexuality in literature.

Self-determination, National, in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Indians of North America--Kinship.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'When Did Indians Become Straight?' explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation.

Contents:

Introduction

Reproducing the Indian: racial birth and native geopolitics in Narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans

Adoption nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and the boundaries of familial feeling

Romancing kinship: Indian education, the allotment program, and Zitkala-sa's American Indian stories

Allotment subjectivities and the administration of culture: Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act

Finding "our" history: gender, sexuality, and the space of peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk trail

Tradition and the contemporary queer: sexuality, nationality, and history in Drowning in fire.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045412-1

0-19-978123-0

9786613018502

1-283-01850-0

0-19-975546-9

OCLC:

922970452