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In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. While nationalism remains a dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts, Huhndorf examines the ways in which transnational indigenous politics have reshaped Native culture (especially novels, films, photography, and performance) in the United States and Canada since the 1980s. Mapping the Americas thus broadens the political paradigms that have dominated recent critical work in Native studies as well as the geographies that provide its focus, particularly through its engagement with the Arctic. Among the manifestations of these new tendencies in Native culture that Huhndorf presents are Igloolik Isuma Productions, the Inuit company that has produced nearly forty films, including Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner; indigenous feminist playwrights; Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead; and the multimedia artist Shelley Niro.Huhndorf also addresses the neglect of Native America by champions of "postnationalist" American studies, which shifts attention away from ongoing colonial relationships between the United States and indigenous communities within its borders to U.S. imperial relations overseas. This is a dangerous oversight, Huhndorf argues, because this neglect risks repeating the disavowal of imperialism that the new American studies takes to task. Parallel transnational tendencies in American studies and Native American studies have thus worked at cross-purposes: as pan-tribal alliances draw attention to U.S. internal colonialism and its connections to global imperialism, American studies deflects attention from these ongoing processes of conquest. Mapping the Americas addresses this neglect by considering what happens to American studies when you put Native studies at the center.

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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 décembre 2010

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780801458804

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

Mapping the Americas

The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture

Shari M. Huhndorf

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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First published 2009 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Huhndorf, Shari M. (Shari Michelle), 1965– Mapping the Americas : the transnational politics of contemporary native culture / Shari M. Huhndorf. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801448003 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—Ethnic identity. 2. Indians of North America—Politics and government. 3. Indian arts—North America. 4. Eskimos—Alaska—Ethnic identity. 5. Eskimos—Alaska—Politics and government. 6. Inuit—Canada—Ethnic identity. 7. Inuit— Canada—Politics and government. I. Title.

E98.E85H84 2009 323.1197—dc22

2009000524

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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Terminology

Contents

Introduction: Native American Studies and the Limits of Nationalism

1. Colonizing Alaska: Race, Nation, and the Remaking of Native America

2. “From the Inside and through Inuit Eyes”: Igloolik Isuma Productions and the Cultural Politics of Inuit Media

3. Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Gendered Politics of Memory

4. Picture Revolution: “Tribal Internationalism” and the Future of the Americas in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead

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Coda: Border Crossings

Works Cited Index

172 179 193

Illustrations

1. Exhibition poster of drawings from the 1890s by Eskimo students, 1928

2. Cascade Court, AlaskaYukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

3. Ofﬁcial seal of the AlaskaYukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

4. “Educated Eskimos”: ofﬁcial postcard of the AlaskaYukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

5. “Igorotte Baby from the Phillipines [sic] and Eskimo Baby from Alaska”: ofﬁcial postcard of the Alaska YukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

6. Igorot village, AlaskaYukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

7. Eskimo village, AlaskaYukonPaciﬁc Exposition, 1909

8. Shelley Niro,The Border,1997 installation at the Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University

27 54 56

60 64 66

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