Mediating Indianness

Book

Mediating Indianness / edited by Cathy Covell Waegner.

Waegner, Cathy Covell, 1948- (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780887557798
ISBN: 0887557791
ISBN: 1611861519
ISBN: 9781611861518
Physical Description: xxx, 318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Publisher: Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: Part one. Transethnicity/transculturality and protest in historical contexts. "You have liberty to return to your own country": Tecumseh, myth, and the rhetoric of Native sovereignty / Billy J. Stratton -- "IndiVisible" identities: mediating Native American and African American encounters and transethnic identity in A thrilling sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee / Sonja Georgi -- "Buffalo Bill takes a scalp": mediated transculturality on both sides of the Atlantic with William F. Cody's wild west, from show to Hollywood and YouTube / Cathy Covell Waegner -- Native postmodern? Remediating history in the fiction of Stephen Graham Jones and D.L. Birchfield / A. Robert Lee -- Flight times in Gerald Vizenor's Blue ravens: White Earth mediating history / A. Robert Lee -- Part two. (Trans)media literacy, youth cultures, and nation. [tsalagi digoweli] Cherokee writing: mediating traditions, codifying nation / Ellen Cushman -- "We can tell our own history, we can tell our own future": Quese IMC, Culture Shock Camp, and an indigenous hip-hop movement / Chris LaLonde -- Jim Jarmusch's Dead man revisited: still thwarting all cultural and cinematic notions of alterity / Christine Plicht -- Mediating the Native gaze: the American Indian youth's cinematic presence in Chris Eyre's films / Ludmila Martanovschi -- Refraction and helio-tropes: Native photography and visions of light / Kimberly Blaeser -- RefleXions: a creative essay / Evelina Zuni Lucero -- Festa de Sant Joan: June 23, 2012, Barcelona, Spain / Jane Haladay -- Part three. Performance, gender, and cultural capital. "The bear is our protector": metaphor and mediation in the Northern Ute (Nuche) bear dance / Sally McBeth -- Eric Gansworth's theatrical productions: "Indianness" mediated through the juxtaposition of cultural capital and performance / Nicholle Dragone -- Eric Gansworth's Re-creation story: mediation and remediation / John Purdy -- Mobile Indians: capitalism, the performance of mobility, and the mediation of place in Minda Martin's documentary Free land / Kerstin Schmidt -- Part four. "Crow Commons": creative correspondences and virtual affiliations. An exposition of virtual exchanges / Kimberly Blaeser, Jane Haladay, Gordon Henry Jr., Molly McGlennen, and Jesse Peters -- Envoy: response to "Crow Commons" / Gerald Vizenor.