When Did Indians Become Straight?
Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Native American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Native American Studies, History, Americas
| Author: | Mark Rifkin | ISBN: | 9780190454128 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | January 27, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mark Rifkin |
| ISBN: | 9780190454128 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | January 27, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination.
When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination.
