Twenty-first century perspectives on indigenous studies
Subtitle: native North America in (trans)motion
By: Edited by Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine N. Meyer
Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives -- 1
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781138860292
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: American literature; Indian authors; History and criticism; Canadian literature; Indians in literature; Indians of North America; Ethnic identity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American; HISTORY / Native American
Description: "In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), and Tomson Highway (Cree), as well as non-Native authorities, such as Chadwick Allen, Hartmut Lutz, and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America--from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights--as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary, performative, and visual works of art by John Ross, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, Emily Pauline Johnson, Leslie Marmon Silko, Emma Lee Warrior, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Graham Jones, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. In doing so, the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges, outline future paths for scholarly inquiry, and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary transmotion : survivance and totemic motion in Native American Indian art and literature / Gerald Vizenor; title: Native dramatic theory in a Bird house / Diane Glancy; title: First Nations writing : a personal history / Tomson Highway; title: Reading through peoplehood : towards a culturally responsive approach to Native American literary discourse / Billy J. Stratton; title: Evil and sacrifice in Native North American literature : Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich / Helmbrecht Breinig; title: Games Indians play : reflections on sports as cultural practice and historical template in contemporary Native American literature and film / Hans Bak; title: Re-scripting indigenous America : earthworks in native art, literature, community / Chadwick Allen; title: In the shadow of the Marshall court : nineteenth-century Cherokee conceptualizations of the law / Sabine N. Meyer; title: A "whale" of a problem : indigenous tradition vs. ecological taboo / Maria Moss; title: Globalizing indigenous histories : comparison, connectedness, and new contexts for Native American history / Sami Lakomäki; title: Catherine Tekakwitha : the construction of a saint / Michael Draxlbauer; title: Memory, community, and historicity in Joseph Bruchac's The journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 / Hsinya Huang; title: "Indianthusiasts" and "mythbusters" : (de-)constructing transatlantic others / Hartmut Lutz.