Rifkin Speaking for the People

Native Writing and the Question of Political Form
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2163-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 319 Seiten

Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recognition, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rifkin, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's Letters 35
2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess 77
3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity 127
4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Ša's Autobiographical Stories 176
Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood 221
Notes 235
Bibliography 277
Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation and Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, both also published by Duke University Press.