Trans-Indigenous by Chadwick Allen

Trans-Indigenous by Chadwick Allen

What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency.

Through demonstrations of distinct forms of juxtaposition-across historical periods and geographical borders, across tribes and nations, across the Indigenous–settler binary, across genre and media-Allen reclaims aspects of the Indigenous archive from North America, Hawaii, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia that have been largely left out of the scholarly conversation. He engages systems of Indigenous aesthetics-such as the pictographic discourse of Plains Indian winter counts, the semiotics of Navajo weaving, and Maori carving traditions, as well as Indigenous technologies like large-scale North American earthworks and Polynesian ocean-voyaging waka-for the interpretation of contemporary Indigenous texts. The result is a provocative reorienting of the call for Native intellectual, artistic, and literary sovereignty that fully prioritizes the global Indigenous.

"Chadwick Allen’s articulation of a Trans-Indigenous methodology is clear-minded, robust, and urgentA committed focus on specific texts is underpinned by deep and genuinely reflective intellectual, ethical, and political commitments. Trans-Indigenous both emphasizes and will be a key player in the configuration of global Indigenous literary studies; yet it is able, through its sheer specificity, to speak provocatively and productively beyond a singular discipline or nation." —Alice Te Punga Somerville, Victoria University of Wellington

Chadwick Allen is professor of English and coordinator of American Indian studies at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts.

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ISBN 13	9780816678198
ISBN 10	0816678197
Title	Trans-Indigenous
Author	Chadwick Allen
Series	Indigenous Americas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2012-10-03
Number of pages	336
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