Postcolonial America

by King, C. Richard

• ISBN13: 9780252025310
• ISBN10: 0252025318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This authoritative and challenging collection describes and debates postcolonialism as it applies to America. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, scholars from a wide array of disciplines clarify and challenge prevailing conceptualizations of postcolonialism and accepted understandings of American culture.

Advancing multiple, even conflicted visions of postcolonial America, this volume interrogates postcolonial theory, traces the emergence and significance of postcolonial practices and precepts in the United States, and details the manner in which the uneven relations central to the crystallization of postcoloniality have informed and changed American identities and institutions.

Contributors discuss how the unique status of the United States as the colony that became a superpower has shaped its sense of itself. They assess the global networks of inequality that have displaced neocolonial systems of conquest, exploitation, and occupation. They also e

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Dislocating Postcoloniality, Relocating American Empire	1	(20)
C. Richard King
Part 1: (Post) National Narratives
The Beast of the Apocalypse: The Postcolonial Experience of the United States	21	(44)
Jon Stratton
New Postnational Narratives, Old American Dreams; or, The Problem with Coming-of-Age Stories	65	(16)
Susie O'Brien
Subject to Justice: The ``Cultural Defense'' and Legal Constructions of Race, Culture, and Nation	81	(22)
Donna Kay Maeda
Part 2: Unsettling the American Experience: Immigration, Transationalism, and Globalization
Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race	103	(19)
Jenny Sharpe
Internal Frontiers, Transnational Politics, 1945-65: Im/Migration Policy as World Domination	122	(32)
Rachel Buff
On the Road with Chrysler: From Nation to Virtual Empire	154	(17)
Elena Glasberg
Establishment Postcolonialism and Its Alter/Native Others: Deciding to Be Accountable in a World of Permanent Emergency	171	(30)
E. San Juan Jr.
Part 3: Postcolonial Formations: Complicity, Opposition, and Possibility
Son of the Forest, Child of God: William Apess and the Scene of Postcolonial Nativity	201	(22)
Laura E. Donaldson
Modern Colonization and the Will to Alterity: Public Culture and Migrant Lifecraft in a New Mexico Town	223	(31)
Arthur Martin
Genocide 'n' Juice: Reading the Postcolonial Discourses in Hip-Hop Culture	254	(21)
Brij David Lunine
The Imperial Dynamic in the Study of Religion: Neocolonial Practices in an American Discipline	275	(28)
Russell T. McCutcheon
Postcolonial Encounters: Narrative Constructions of Devils Tower National Monument	303	(18)
John Dorst
Postscript: Exhibiting Hawai'i	321	(32)
David Prochaska
Contributors	353	(4)
Index	357