Trans-indigenous [[electronic resource] ] : methodologies for global native literary studies / / Chadwick Allen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462898303321
• Autore: Allen Chadwick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-4529-4842-9; 0-8166-8276-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: Indigenous Americas
• Disciplina: 810.9/897
• Soggetti: American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Indians in literature; Indian aesthetics; Indians, Treatment of - United States - History; New Zealand literature - Maori authors - History and criticism; Maori (New Zealand people) in literature; Indigenous peoples; Group identity in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: ands turn comparative turn trans- -- Recovery/interpretation. "Being" indigenous "now": resettling "the Indian today" within and beyond the U.S. 1960s -- Unsettling the Spirit of '76: American Indians anticipate the U.S. Bicentennial -- Interpretation/recovery. Pictographic, woven, carved: engaging N. Scott Momaday's "Carnegie, Oklahoma, 1919" through multiple indigenous aesthetics -- Indigenous languaging: empathy and translation across alphabetic, aural, and visual texts -- Siting earthworks, navigating waka: patterns of indigenous settlement in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood run and Robert Sullivan's Star waka.
• Sommario/riassunto: What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global ; Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency. Through demonstrations of distinct forms of juxtaposition-across historical periods and geographical borders, across tribes and nations, across the Indigenous-settler...