Speaking for the People - Native Writing and the Question of Political Form

About the author

Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation and Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, both also published by Duke University Press.

Summary

Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recognition, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Rifkin
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2021
• EAN: 9781478013419
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1341-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories