A separate country : postcoloniality and American Indian nations / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.
2012
E78.W5 C575 2012 (Mapit)
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Title A separate country : postcoloniality and American Indian nations / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
Author Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.
ISBN 9780896727342 (alk. paper)
0896727343 (alk. paper)
9780896727250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0896727254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description xvii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E78.W5 C575 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 978.004/97
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I. 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
II. 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?
III. 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)
IV. Postcoloniality: a mask of civilization
Is now the moment?
State governmental power versus tribal nation autonomy
Conclusions.

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