Engaged resistance : American Indian art, literature, and film from Alcatraz to the NMAI / Dean Rader.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rader, Dean
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Series:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Subjects:
Indigenous arts > Political aspects > United States > History.
Government, Resistance to > United States > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Politics and government.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous ethics > United States > History.
Indigenous art > United States > History.
American literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism.
Indigenous films > United States > History.
Indigenous peoples in motion pictures > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Intellectual life.
Physical Description:x, 253 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Engaged resistance : Alcatraz
  • The cartography of sovereignty : Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's map paintings
  • The new American Indian novel : a user's map
  • The cinematics of engagement, the politics of resistance : Naturally Native and Skins
  • Word as weapon : visual culture and contemporary American Indian poetry
  • Compositional resistance : genre and contemporary American Indian poetry
  • Celluloid Alexie : postindianism in Smoke signals and The business of fancydancing
  • Narrative resistance : Leslie Marmon Silko's "Storyteller"
  • Roofs, roads, and rotundas : American Indian public art
  • Engaged resistance : the National Museum of the American Indian
  • Epilogue.