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Informationen zum Autor Joel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is a coeditor of Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America and the author of Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse and The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction. Klappentext Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor. Zusammenfassung Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness! find the meaning of life and how they should labour Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1 PART ONE>Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 29 1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 31 2 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97 PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 133 3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135 4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185 Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229 Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253 Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257 Abbreviations in Notes 259 Notes 261 Index 321
