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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Byrd, Jodi A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
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.