Mark Rifkin

Manifesting America (eBook, ePUB)

The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Manifesting America explores how Native American and Mexican American writers use various kinds of nonfiction to challenge the ideology of manifest destiny.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199324019
• Artikelnr.: 38135905

Autorenporträt

Mark Rifkin is Associate Professor of English at the North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of When Did Indians Become Straight?, and The Erotics of Sovereignty.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Self-Determination, Subaltern Studies, and the Critical Remapping of
U.S. Empire -- 1
* Chapter 1
* Representing the Cherokee Nation: Imperial Power and Elite Interests
in the Remaking of Cherokee Governance - 62
* Chapter 2
* The Territoriality of Tradition: Treaties, Hunting Grounds, and
Prophecy in Black Hawk's Narrative - 128
* Chapter 3
* Comanche Metaphors: Juan Seguín's Memoirs and the Figure of the
Barbarian in the Struggle for Texas - 187
* Chapter 4
* Partial Citizens and Insurgent Masses: Narrating Violence Past and
Present in Post-1848 California -- 260