Beyond Settler Time - Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination

Mark Rifkin is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the author of several books, including Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance.

List of contents

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xv
1. Indigenous Orientations  1
2. The Silence of Ely S. Parker  49
3. The Duration of the Land  95
4. Ghost Dancing at Century's End  129
Coda. Deferring Juridical Time  179
Notes  193
Bibliography  241
Index  269

About the author

Mark Rifkin

Summary

Mark Rifkin explores how Indigenous experiences with time and the dominance of settler colonial conceptions of temporality have affected Native peoplehood and sovereignty, thereby rethinking the very terms by which history is created and organized around time by.

Product details

• Authors: Assistant Professor of English Mark (Unive Rifkin, Mark Rifkin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780822362852
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6285-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore