Speaking for the People : Native Writing and the Question of Political Form /

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"Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recognition, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rifkin, Mark, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and literature.
Indians, Treatment of.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians of North America > Colonization.
American literature > Indian authors.
American literature.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What's in a nation? Cherokee vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's letters
  • Experiments in signifying sovereignty : exemplarity and the politics of southern New England in William Apess
  • Among ghost dances : Sarah Winnemucca and the production of Paiute identity
  • The Native informant speaks : the politics of ethnographic subjectivity in ZitkalaŠa's autobiographical stories
  • Coda. On refusing the ethnographic imaginary, or reading for the politics of peoplehood.

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