The Transit of Empire : Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism /
"In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization
- Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry
- "This Island's Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony
- The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability
- "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship
- Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance
- Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy"
- Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism.