The Routledge handbook of North American indigenous modernisms / edited by Kirby Brown, Stephen Ross, Alana Sayers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Kirby, 1974- editor.

Ross, Stephen, 1970- editor.

Sayers, Alana, editor.

Series:

Routledge literature handbooks.

Routledge literature handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

Canadian literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field. Incorporating an international scope of essays, this volume reaches beyond traditional national or euroamerican boundaries to locate North American Indigenous modernities and modernisms in a hemispheric context. Covering key theoretical approaches and topics, this volume includes: Diverse explorations of Indigenous cultural and intellectual production in treatments of dance, poetry, vaudeville, autobiography, radio, cinema, and more Investigation of how we think about Indigenous lives, literatures, and cultural productions in North America from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Surveys of critical geographies of Indigenous literary and cultural studies, including refocused and reframed exploration of the diverse cultures, knowledges, traditions, geographies, experiences, and formal innovations that inform Indigenous literary, intellectual, and cultural productions The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms presents fresh insight to modernist studies, acknowledging and reconciling the occluded histories of Indigenous erasure, and inviting both students and scholars to expand their understanding of the field.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introductory Conversation

Notes

Part Geographies

1 When a Mound Isn't a Mound, But Is: Figuring (And Fissuring) Earthworks in Lynn Riggs's The Cherokee Night

Picnics With the Dead

The Feel of Flint

Sterile Fissure

References

2 Modernist Activities and Native Acts in and Around Northern New Mexico

Modernization and Indigeneity in Northern New Mexico

Maria Montoya Martínez (1887-1980)

Antonio (Tony) Luján (1879-1963)

Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)

Keywords for Southwestern Indigenous Modernisms

3 "God Gave Us the Seals": Makah Relational Modernity and the Consequences of Settler Conservation

Crafting a Relational Modernity

Conservation and Settler Modernity

4 Geographies of Allotment Modernisms

5 Beyond the Bureau of American Ethnology: Remembering the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood as a Co-National Network …

6 The Unsettling Times of Zitkála-Šá and Grazia Deledda

Different Politics, Different Forms

A Modern Woman

From Is Also Beyond

Coda: Expand to Fill, Shrink to Fit

Part Temporalities

7 John Joseph Mathews, Francis La Flesche, and the Indigenous World of the North American Midcontinent

Francis La Flesche and The Scene of History

John Joseph Mathews and the Middle Waters

Conclusion: Movement, Water, Earth, Sky

8 Corporate Tribalism: Indigeneity, Modernity, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

Life On the Land

"Hunger Knows No Law:" The Beginnings of Alaska Native Land Claims

Indigenous Land Claims in Alaska

References.

9 Indigeneity and the Caribbean: Some Periodical Perspectives

Introduction

Indigeneity: A Widened Definition

Indigenous Peoples in Bim and Kyk-Over-Al

Indigeneity and Modernist Experiment

Conclusions

Note

10 Native/Black Birds: Voicing the Ruptures of Modernity Through Joy Harjo's Indigenous Jazz Poetics

Indigenous Ways of Listening to a Blackbird

From the Sound of the Indian to Tribal Jazz

Paying Tribute

Conclusion

11 Casualties of Modernism: The Affects and Afterlives of Kent Monkman's Automobiles

Monkman and Modernism

Automobiles

When Wastelands Are Homelands

Part Genres and Forms

12 The Form(s) of Allotment

Rolls

Blood

Business

13 Fugitive Indigeneity in Paul Green's The Last of the Lowries and Lynn Riggs's The Cherokee Night

14 Minor Characters, Modernity, and the Indigenous Modernist Novel: John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, and ...

The Politics of Minor Characters

Paredes's and Hurston's Indigenous Minor Characters

The Politics of Characterization in Indigenous Modernist Fiction

15 Indigenous Modernity On Celluloid at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Indians of the American Imagination

Documenting the "Vanishing Indian": The Romance of a Vanishing Race (1916)

A Different Kind of "Indian Drama": The Daughter of Dawn (1920)

Acknowledgments

16 Henry Starr's Outlaw Modernism

The Modernist and Assimilationist Period(s)

Henry G. Starr (1873-1921)

Thrilling Events: Henry Starr's Outlaw Modernism

"You're Not the Indian I Had in Mind"

Part Venues

17 False Idols: Totemism, Reification, and Anishinaabe Culture in Modernist Thought

Notes.

References

18 Performance Circuits, Vaudeville Bits, and Indigenous Resilience

Gathering Places and Sites of Power

Vaudeville Bits and Indigenous Mobilities

Mass Culture and Modernities

19 Indigenous Cinema and the Studio System: The Case of Edwin Carewe's The Snowbird (1916)

Edwin Carewe On and Off Stage

Reading The Snowbird

Place and Setting

Gender, Race and Genre

20 Syncretic Modernism and The Chemawa American

Transcoloniality

Intertribality

Intertextuality

Intertemporality

The Chemawa American and Syncretic Modernism

21 The Five Moons: Ballet's Modernist Indigenous Starscape

Rosella Hightower: The International Icon

Moscelyne Larkin: The Soubrette and the "Cowgirl"

The Tallchiefs: America's First Prima Ballerina and America's First Premiére Danseuse Étoile

Yvonne Chouteau: The "Tall-Shoe" and the "Silverheel"

Afterword: Troubling the Indigenous Modern

Reference

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-303048-3

1-003-03048-3

1-000-63826-X

9781003030485

OCLC:

1337923514