Pfister / Pease Individuality Incorporated

Indians and the Multicultural Modern
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8566-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfister, Joel

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1

PART ONE

Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 29

1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31

2 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97

PART TWO

Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 133

3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135

4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185

Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229

Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253

Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257

Abbreviations in Notes 259

Notes 261

Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is a coeditor of Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America and the author of Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse and The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction.