When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

ISBN-13: 9780199755455 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 440 str.

Mark Rifkin

Opis

When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination.

Recenzje

When Did Indians Become Straight? is a groundbreaking study of the uses of the native in the making of critical theory and national belonging.

O autorze

Mark Rifkin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (OUP 2009).