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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1.: Reproducing the Indian: Racial Birth and Native Geopolitics in Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison and Last of the Mohicans 2.: Adoption Nation: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hendrick Aupaumut, and the Boundaries of Familial Feeling 3.: Romancing Kinship: Indian Education, the Allotment Program, and Zitkala- 4.: Allotment Subjectivities and the Administration of "Culture": Ella Deloria, Pine Ridge, and the Indian Reorganization Act 5.: Finding "Our" History: Gender, Sexuality, and the Space of Peoplehood in Stone Butch Blues and Mohawk Trail 6.: Tradition and the Contemporary Queer: Sexuality, Nationality, and History in Drowning in Fire ...
