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

• Autore: Allen Chadwick
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/897
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Indians in literature; Indian aesthetics; Indians, Treatment of - United States - History; New Zealand literature - Māori authors - History and criticism; Māori (New Zealand people) in literature; Indigenous peoples; Group identity in literature
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Trans-Indigenous
• ISBN: 1-4529-4842-9; 0-8166-8276-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786122803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indigenous Americas.