Alternative Contact

by Lai, Paul; Smith, Lindsey Claire

• ISBN13: 9781421400600
• ISBN10: 142140060X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-08
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Spaces of the Pacific
Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs	p. 31
Kewaikaliko's Benocide: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano and Its Legal Progeny	p. 51
Indigeneity in the Diaspora: The Case of Native Hawaiians at Iosepa, Utah	p. 71
Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Samoa	p. 95
Experimental Encounters: Filipino and Hawaiian Bodies in the U.S. Imperial Invention of Odontoclasia, 1928-1946	p. 117
Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity	p. 141
ôUnexpectedö Indigenous Modernity
Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission	p. 163
Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition	p. 185
ôSioux Yellsö in the Dawes Era: Lakota ôIndian Play,ö the Wild West, and the Literatures of Luther Standing Bear	p. 211
Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels	p. 233
Maori Cowboys, Maori Indians	p. 257
A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura's Photography, 1903-1913	p. 281
Nation and Nation-State
Between Dangerous Extremes: Victimization, Ultranationalism, and Identity Performance in Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57	p. 311
Toward a U.S.-China Comparative Critique: Indigenous Rights and National Expansion in Alex Kuo's Panda Diaries	p. 333
ôSowing Death in Our Women's Wombsö: Modernization and Indigenous Nationalism in the 1960s Peace Corps and Jorge Sanjinés' Yawar Mallku	p. 357
Contributors	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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