The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law - Couverture souple

Cheyfitz, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517911338 ISBN 13 : 9781517911331

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2023

Synopsis

A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America

In The Colonial Construction of Indian Country, Eric Cheyfitz mounts a pointed historical critique of colonialism through careful analysis of the dialogue between Native American literatures and federal Indian law. Illuminating how these literatures indict colonial practices, he argues that if the decolonization of Indian country is to be achieved, then federal Indian law must be erased and replaced with independent Native nation sovereignty--because subordinate sovereignty, the historical regime, is not sovereignty at all.

At the same time, Cheyfitz argues that Native American literatures, specifically U.S. American Indian literatures, cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of U.S. federal Indian law: the matrix of colonialism in Indian country. Providing intersectional readings of a range of literary and legal texts, he discusses such authors as Louise Erdrich, Frances Washburn, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. Cheyfitz examines how American Indian writers and critics have responded to the impact of law on Native life, revealing recent trends in Native writing that build upon traditional modes of storytelling and governance.

With a focus on resistance to the colonial regime of federal Indian law, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country not only elucidates how Native American literatures and federal Indian law are each crucial to any reading of the other, it also guides readers to better understand the genocidal assault on Indigenous peoples by Western structures of literacy, politics, and law.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell University. He is author of The Disinformation Age: The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517911338
• ISBN 13: 9781517911331
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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