Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature

by Christie, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780230613423
• ISBN10: 023061342X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The indigenous experience of Anglo-European nationality has a long and violent history. Yet over time, the imposition of an originally "foreign" nationality onto indigenous communities has produced, for some American Indians and Native Canadians, a potent vision of sovereign plurality in the indigenous imagining. Offering close and compelling readings of novels by Sherman Alexie, Jeanette Armstrong, A. A. Carr, Louise Erdrich, Thomas King, Louis Owens, Leslie M. Silko, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor,Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literaturedocuments the reinvention of Anglo-European nationality in the interests of sustaining indigenous traditions.

Author Biography

Stuart Christie is Associate Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral and articles on literary modernism, the contemporary indigenous novel, and east-west literary relations.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. ix
Cover Image	p. xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Plural Sovereignties and Indigenous Literary Formation	p. 1
Representations
Blood Legacies: Pathology and Power in Works	p. 39
National Captivity Narratives in Welch, Silko, and Armstrong	p. 73
Trickster's Gamble: Capitalizing Indigenous Discourse in Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus and Erdrich's The Bingo Palace	p. 105
Futures
Recovering Sovereignty in Louis Owens's Dark River	p. 157
Indigenous Wormholes: Reading Plural Sovereignties in Works by Thomas King	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 217
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 267
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