Mark Rifkin

When Did Indians Become Straight? (eBook, ePUB)

Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190454128
• Artikelnr.: 42641769

Autorenporträt

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 and the coeditor of Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity: Rethinking the State at the Intersection of Native American and Queer Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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