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Speaking for the people : Native writing and the question of political form / Mark Rifkin.
Van Pelt Library PS153.I52 R56 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rifkin, Mark, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Indian authors.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- History.
- United States.
- Indians, Treatment of--United States--History.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Colonization.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Speaking for the People argues that turning to nineteenth-century Native writings can provide valuable lessons for thinking about contemporary questions of Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. These texts illustrate the intellectual labor involved in trying to represent Native peoples to non-native publics, and in doing so, they point toward the difficulties involved in negotiating the character, contours, and circumstances of Indigenous governance under ongoing colonial occupation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What's in a nation? Cherokee vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's letters
- Experiments in signifying sovereignty : exemplarity and the politics of southern New England in William Apess
- Among ghost dances : Sarah Winnemucca and the production of Paiute identity
- The Native informant speaks : the politics of ethnographic subjectivity in ZitkalaŠa's autobiographical stories
- Coda. On refusing the ethnographic imaginary, or reading for the politics of peoplehood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rifkin, Mark, 1974- Speaking for the people.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013419
- 1478013419
- 9781478014331
- 1478014334
- OCLC:
- 1202760534
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