When Did Indians Become Straight?

Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-975546-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

When Did Indians Become Straight?explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rifkin, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1.: Reproducing the Indian: Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans

- 2.: Adoption Nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and the Boundaries of Familial Feeling

- 3.: Romancing Kinship: Indian Education, the Allotment Program, and Zitkala-

- 4.: Allotment Subjectivities and the Administration of "Culture": Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act

- 5.: Finding "Our" History: Gender, Sexuality, and the Space of Peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk Trail

- 6.: Tradition and the Contemporary Queer: Sexuality, Nationality, and History in Drowning in Fire

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Rifkin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (OUP 2009).