Mark Rifkin

Speaking for the People

Native Writing and the Question of Political Form

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014331
• ISBN-10: 1478014334
• Artikelnr.: 61214915

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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