Author:
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.
Imprint:Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, c2012.
Descriptionxvii, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:pt. 1. The Indian postmodern. Situating colonial and postcolonial studies ; Indigeneity as a category of analysis ; A new understanding of a specific historical event within the colonial paradigm ; Eliminationism ; On "looking westward" ; Law: the task of justification -- pt. 2. Imponderables. Just a thought ; Citizen! Citizen! ; The cynical tourist ; What about violence? ; The politics of misogyny ; The dilemma of language and the art of political persuasion ; Balancing acts for academic risk takers ; Taku Inichiapi? What's in a name? -- pt. 3. Two case studies. Case study 1: the assault on a nation through the political applications of colonization (1888) ; Case study 2: the dismissal of a people from the Dakota prairie: a case of literary genocide (1920-1930) -- pt. 4. Postcoloniality: a mask of civilization. Is now the moment? ; State governmental power versus tribal nation autonomy ; Conclusions.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Essays questioning the academic notion that "postcoloniality" is the current condition of American Indian communities. Argues that American Indians remain among the most colonized people in the modern world; revises the popular view of the American West and explores the forgotten history of Indigenousness in America"--Provided by publisher.
