Jodi A. Byrd

The Transit of Empire

Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how "Indianness" has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

Produktdetails

• First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780816676415
• ISBN-10: 0816676410
• Artikelnr.: 33396506

Autorenporträt

Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and assistant professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: Full Fathom Five
Introduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of
Civilization
1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry
2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony
3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of
Grievability
4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee
Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship
5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the
Discourses of Resistance
6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of
Democracy”
Conclusion: Zombie Imperialism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index