Twenty-first century perspectives on indigenous studies [electronic resource] : native North America in (trans)motion / Edited by Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine N. Meyer.

"In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the "transnational turn." Global trends of identity politics, performativit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Däwes, Birgit (Editor)
Fitz, Karsten (Editor)
Meyer, Sabine N., 1979- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Series:Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives ; 1
Subjects:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central: 2015 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)Motion
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Literary transmotion : survivance and totemic motion in Native American Indian art and literature / Gerald Vizenor
  • Native dramatic theory in a Bird house / Diane Glancy
  • First Nations writing : a personal history / Tomson Highway
  • Reading through peoplehood : towards a culturally responsive approach to Native American literary discourse / Billy J. Stratton
  • Evil and sacrifice in Native North American literature : Johnson, Momaday, Vizenor, Erdrich / Helmbrecht Breinig
  • Games Indians play : reflections on sports as cultural practice and historical template in contemporary Native American literature and film / Hans Bak
  • Re-scripting indigenous America : earthworks in native art, literature, community / Chadwick Allen
  • In the shadow of the Marshall court : nineteenth-century Cherokee conceptualizations of the law / Sabine N. Meyer
  • A "whale" of a problem : indigenous tradition vs. ecological taboo / Maria Moss
  • Globalizing indigenous histories : comparison, connectedness, and new contexts for Native American history / Sami Lakomäki
  • Catherine Tekakwitha : the construction of a saint / Michael Draxlbauer
  • Memory, community, and historicity in Joseph Bruchac's The journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 / Hsinya Huang
  • "Indianthusiasts" and "mythbusters" : (de-)constructing transatlantic others / Hartmut Lutz.