A separate country : postcoloniality and American Indian nations

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A separate country : postcoloniality and American Indian nations / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780896727342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0896727343 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780896727250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0896727254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvii, 216 pages : illustrations : 23 cm.
Publisher: Lubboc, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.
Formatted Contents 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