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Informationen zum Autor Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and assistant professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Klappentext In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable "Indianness" that facilitates acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources.Examining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislations-from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill-Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire.Byrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms. Zusammenfassung Examines how "Indianness" has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPreface: Full Fathom FiveIntroduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy”Conclusion: Zombie ImperialismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex ...
