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Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
Paul Lai
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Description for Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
Paperback. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context. Editor(s): Lai, Paul; Smith, Lindsey Claire. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC; JFFS; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. Organized into three thematic sections-Spaces of the Pacific, "Unexpected Indigenous" Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State- Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American-European "first contact." Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies. The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions ... Read more
Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. Organized into three thematic sections-Spaces of the Pacific, "Unexpected Indigenous" Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State- Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American-European "first contact." Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies. The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
A Special Issue of American Quarterly
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421400600
SKU
V9781421400600
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About Paul Lai
Paul Lai teaches English at the University of St. Thomas and specializes in Asian American studies. Lindsey Claire Smith is an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University and author of Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature.
Reviews for Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
[Alternative Contact] provides a refreshingly new approach to previous scholarship while it simultaneously offers scholars solid, well-researched analyses for further exploration of the transnational perspective.
Susan Savage Lee American Indian Quarterly
Susan Savage Lee American Indian Quarterly