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Trans-Indigenous : methodologies for global Native literary studies /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Allen, Chadwick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Series:Indigenous Americas.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.