Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Native North America in (Trans)Motion
Redaktion: Däwes, Birgit; Meyer, Sabine N.; Fitz, Karsten

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring articles by eminent as well as emerging scholars in Native North American Studies, this volume offers current perspectives on some of the field's most prevalent issues, including global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, issues of social justice, and the intersections between law and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317507338
• Artikelnr.: 42725654

Autorenporträt

Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Vienna. Karsten Fitz is Professor of American Studies/Culture and Media Studies at the University of Passau. Sabine N. Meyer is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Institute for British and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz and Sabine N. Meyer Part I: Native
Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical Trajectories and Critical
Approaches 1. Literary Transmotion: Survivance and Totemic Motion in Native
American Indian Art and Literature Gerald Vizenor 2. Native Dramatic Theory
in a Bird House Diane Glancy 3. First Nations Writing: A Personal History
Tomson Highway Part II: Native Stories and Storiers 4. Reading Through
Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American
Literary Discourse Billy J. Stratton 5. Evil and Sacrifice in Native North
American Literature: Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich Helmbrecht Breinig
6. Games Indians Play: Reflections on Sports as Cultural Practice and
Historical Template in Contemporary Native American Literature and Film
Hans Bak Part III: Land, Law, and Indigenous Ecologies 7. Re-scripting
Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community
Chadwick Allen 8. In the Shadow of the Marshall Court: Nineteenth-Century
Cherokee Conceptualizations of the Law Sabine N. Meyer 9. A "Whale" of a
Problem: Indigenous Tradition vs. Ecological Taboo Maria Moss Part IV:
History and Transnationalism 10. Globalizing Indigenous Histories:
Comparison, Connectedness, and New Contexts for Native American History
Sami Lakomäki 11. Catherine Tekakwitha: The Construction of a Saint
Michael Draxlbauer 12. Memory, Community, and Historicity in Joseph
Bruchac's The Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears,
1838 Hsinya Huang 13. "Indianthusiasts" and "Mythbusters":
(De-)Constructing Transatlantic Others Hartmut Lutz