The transit of empire : indigenous critiques of colonialism / Jodi A. Byrd.
"In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable "Indianness" that facilitates acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources. Examining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislations--from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill--Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire. Byrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to re imagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780816676408
- ISBN: 0816676402
- ISBN: 9780816676415
- ISBN: 0816676410
- Physical Description: xxxix, 294 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
- Copyright: ©2011
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-270) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry -- 2. "This Islands Mine": The Parallax Logics of Caliban's Cacophony -- 3. Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris's Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability -- 4. "Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn't Stay There": Cherokee Freedmen, Iternal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship -- 5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance -- 6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the "Pale Promise of Democracy". |
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Topic Heading: | Indigenous creators. |
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