When Did Indians Become Straight? - Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

Zusatztext When Did Indians Become Straight? is a groundbreaking study of the uses of the native in the making of critical theory and national belonging. Informationen zum Autor Mark Rifkin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (OUP 2009). Klappentext When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives! fiction! government documents! and anthropological tracts)! Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination. Zusammenfassung When Did Indians Become Straight?explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Rifkin, Rifkin Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780199755455
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975545-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; North America, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Indigenous Peoples, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gay & Lesbian studies, North America (USA and Canada), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous