05195nam 2200745Ia 450 991082371420332120200520144314.01-5017-0566-00-8014-5880-310.7591/9780801458804(CKB)2670000000079070(OCoLC)726824254(OCoLC)966821556(OCoLC)979622584(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457615(SSID)ssj0000485769(PQKBManifestationID)11344254(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485769(PQKBWorkID)10609098(PQKB)11196934(MdBmJHUP)muse51788(DE-B1597)478645(DE-B1597)9780801458804(Au-PeEL)EBL3137994(CaPaEBR)ebr10457615(CaONFJC)MIL956779(MiAaPQ)EBC3137994(OCoLC)979622584(EXLCZ)99267000000007907020090107d2009 uy 0engurcn#---unuuntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMapping the Americas the transnational politics of contemporary native culture /Shari M. Huhndorf1st ed.Ithaca Cornell University Press20091 online resource (xii, 202 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographPrint version: Huhndorf, Shari M. (Shari Michelle), 1965- Mapping the Americas. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009 9780801448003 (DLC) 2009000524 (OCoLC)298541244 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Native American studies and the limits of nationalism --Colonizing Alaska : race, nation, and the remaking of Native America --"From the inside and through Inuit eyes" : Igloolik Isuma Productions and the cultural politics of Inuit media --Indigenous feminism, performance, and the gendered politics of memory --Picture revolution : "tribal internationalism" and the future of the Americas in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead --Coda : border crossings.In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. While nationalism remains a dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts, Huhndorf examines the ways in which transnational indigenous politics have reshaped Native culture (especially novels, films, photography, and performance) in the United States and Canada since the 1980's. Mapping the Americas thus broadens the political paradigms that have dominated recent critical work in Native studies as well as the geographies that provide its focus, particularly through its engagement with the Arctic. Among the manifestations of these new tendencies in Native culture that Huhndorf presents are Igloolik Isuma Productions, the Inuit company that has produced nearly forty films, including Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner; indigenous feminist playwrights; Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead; and the multimedia artist Shelley Niro. Huhndorf also addresses the neglect of Native America by champions of "postnationalist" American studies, which shifts attention away from ongoing colonial relationships between the United States and indigenous communities within its borders to U.S. imperial relations overseas. This is a dangerous oversight, Huhndorf argues, because this neglect risks repeating the disavowal of imperialism that the new American studies takes to task. Parallel transnational tendencies in American studies and Native American studies have thus worked at cross-purposes: as pan-tribal alliances draw attention to U.S. internal colonialism and its connections to global imperialism, American studies deflects attention from these ongoing processes of conquest. Mapping the Americas addresses this neglect by considering what happens to American studies when you put Native studies at the center.Indians of North AmericaEthnic identityIndians of North AmericaPolitics and governmentIndian artsNorth AmericaEskimosAlaskaEthnic identityEskimosAlaskaPolitics and governmentInuitCanadaEthnic identityInuitCanadaPolitics and governmentIndians of North AmericaEthnic identity.Indians of North AmericaPolitics and government.Indian artsEskimosEthnic identity.EskimosPolitics and government.InuitEthnic identity.InuitPolitics and government.323.1197Huhndorf Shari M(Shari Michelle),1965-1649719MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823714203321Mapping the Americas3998621UNINA