Speaking for the People
Speaking for the People
Native Writing and the Question of Political Form
Rifkin, Mark
Duke University Press
09/2021
320
Mole
Inglês
9781478014331
15 a 20 dias
454
Introduction 1
1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's Letters 35
2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess 77
3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity 127
4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Sa's Autobiographical Stories 176
Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood 221
Notes 235
Bibliography 277
Index 301
Introduction 1
1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's Letters 35
2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess 77
3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity 127
4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Sa's Autobiographical Stories 176
Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood 221
Notes 235
Bibliography 277
Index 301