Overview

Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. Organized into three thematic sections-Spaces of the Pacific, ""Unexpected Indigenous"" Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State- Alternative Contact reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native American-European ""first contact."" Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies. The subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments of alternative contact complicate and enrich our understanding of the links between sovereignty, racial formation, and U.S. colonial and imperial projects. Ultimately, Alternative Contact theorizes a more dynamic indigeneity that articulates new or overlooked connections among peoples, histories, cultures, and critical discourses within a global context.

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Author:   Paul Lai (University of St. Thomas) ,  Lindsey Claire Smith (Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781421400600

ISBN 10:   142140060
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   26 June 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I: Spaces of the Pacific Chapter 1. Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs Chapter 2. Kewaikaliko's Benocide: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano and its Legal Progeny Chapter 3. Indigeneity in the Diaspora: The Case of Native Hawaiians at Iosepa, Utah Chapter 4. Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Samoa Chapter 5. Experimental Encounters: Filipino and Hawaiian Bodies in the U.S. Imperial Invention of Odontoclasia, 1928-1946 Chapter 6. Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity Part II: Unexpected Indigenous Modernity Chapter 7. Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission Chapter 8. Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition Chapter 9. Sioux Yells in the Dawes Era: Lakota Indian Play, the Wild West, and the Literatures of Luther Standing Bear Chapter 10. Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels Chapter 11. Maori Cowboys, Maori Indians Chapter 12. A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura's Photography, 1903-1913 Part III: Nation and Nation-State Chapter 13. Between Dangerous Extremes: Victimization, Ultranationalism, and Identity Performance in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 Chapter 14. Toward a U.S.-China Comparative Critique: Indigenous Rights and National Expansion in Alex Kuo's Panda Diaries Chapter 15. Sowing Death in Our Women's Wombs : Modernization and Indigenous Nationalism in the 1960s Peace Corps and Jorge Sanjines' Yawar Mallku Contributors Index

Reviews

Alternative Contact provides a refreshingly new approach to previous scholarship while it simultaneously offers scholars solid, well-researched analyses for further exploration of the transnational perspective. -- Susan Savage Lee American Indian Quarterly 2013

[Alternative Contact] provides a refreshingly new approach to previous scholarship while it simultaneously offers scholars solid, well-researched analyses for further exploration of the transnational perspective. -- Susan Savage Lee American Indian Quarterly 2013

Author Information

Author Website:   http://english.okstate.edu/faculty/fac_pages/smith.htm

Paul Lai teaches English at the University of St. Thomas and specializes in Asian American studies. Lindsey Claire Smith is an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University and author of Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature.

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Author Website:   http://english.okstate.edu/faculty/fac_pages/smith.htm

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