Histories in common : Native American literatures, extra archives, and the Indigenous transpacific / Alyssa A. Hunziker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunziker, Alyssa A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America--Historiography.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Archival resources.

Indigenous authors--Pacific Area--Historiography.

Indigenous authors.

Indigenous authors--Pacific Area--Archival resources.

Indigenous peoples in literature.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]

Summary:

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and dozens more in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Alyssa A. Hunziker considers how American imperialism in the Pacific--typically thought of as separate from the colonization of North America--is deeply intertwined with US settler colonialism. By examining novels, poems, and archival records, Hunziker analyzes literary convergences between global Indigenous communities, and uses an Indigenous transpacific methodology to examine how contemporary authors from Native America, Hawai'i, Guam, the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines reimagine and uncover their historical connections. While the colonial archive has been discussed in both postcolonial and Indigenous studies, archives appear frequently in contemporary Indigenous fiction. Hunziker contends that Indigenous authors use literary form to emphasize seemingly peripheral, or "extra," histories that have been erased from official US records. Using literary archives--like a character's collection of calendars, a degrading film reel, or a discovery of unorganized notes--alongside discussions of institutional archives, the authors under discussion subvert Indigenous erasure by questioning how history is told, and which stories go unrecognized.

Contents:

Empire’s entanglements

Extraneous : archival fragments, military encounters

Extravagant : doubled histories from Native America to the Philippines

Extraterritorial: ocean archives, archipelagic histories

Transterritorial affinities

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Hunziker, Alyssa A. Histories in common

ISBN:

9781469695693

1469695693

9781469688763

146968876X

9781469695679

1469695677

OCLC:

1579845407

Publisher Number:

CIPO000353752