Mark Rifkin

When Did Indians Become Straight?

Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

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Produktbeschreibung

When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780199755462
• ISBN-10: 0199755469
• Artikelnr.: 30880848

Autorenporträt

Mark Rifkin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (OUP 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1.: Reproducing the Indian: Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in
Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans
* 2.: Adoption Nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and
the Boundaries of Familial Feeling
* 3.: Romancing Kinship: Indian Education, the Allotment Program, and
Zitkala-
* 4.: Allotment Subjectivities and the Administration of "Culture":
Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act
* 5.: Finding "Our" History: Gender, Sexuality, and the Space of
Peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk Trail
* 6.: Tradition and the Contemporary Queer: Sexuality, Nationality, and
History in Drowning in Fire