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Homelands: Politics, identity, and place in the American Indian novel.

机译:家园:政治,身份和在美洲印第安人小说中的位置。

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In Homelands, I explain the theoretical implications of the process of decolonization by exploring the ways cultural recovery and political awakening are closely intertwined. In American Indian history, these two concepts are inextricably linked, because U.S. colonialism oppresses Native peoples both with political subjugation and with cultural deprivation. Drawing on a body of theory which has been emerging in recent years, an interdisciplinary "realist" approach to identity and culture, I offer an alternative to the sharp essentialism-postmodernism opposition that, I argue, will not allow us to understand the nature of indigenous struggles. This work is thus concerned fundamentally with the question of how we can develop a theory of identity which explains not only the Native novel, but also the everyday lives and hopeful futures of those to whom it refers.;Native scholars use postmodernist theory to explain the American Indian colonial condition, and have successfully challenged the dominant society's essentialist demand that Native culture be "authentic" by deconstructing the often detrimental racial category of "Indian." But in subverting the very notion of racial and cultural difference, postmodernist theorists are also unable to confront why the world might actually be different for colonized Native peoples, who daily experience real racial and national oppression, than it is for majority peoples.;The realist theoretical tradition reconceives (American Indian) cultural identity not as foundational or authentic but as relational; realists argue that what is called "identity" has a cognitive (as opposed to a purely affective or emotional) basis, and is capable of referring accurately to social facts that constitute American Indian lives. Thus theorized, the process of cultural recovery is not a search for ahistorical essences, but is instead understood as an ongoing dialectic of inquiry through identity and experience. Historically situating the Native novel in the Red Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, a moment of radical political empowerment and cultural recovery for American Indians, I show how three novels responding to the events of this era, N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, James Welch's Winter in the Blood, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, represent a realist process in which political awakening and cultural recovery go hand in hand. In my readings of these novels, I develop a non-essentialist conception of Native cultural identity by charting the recovery of the relationship to the land, and the values this process generates.;My dissertation concludes by extending this exploration of political and cultural growth from the Native novel into daily life, in a study of the incarceration of American Indians in the U.S. prison system today. I show how my understanding of Native experience and identity better supports our political interventions, and explain the need for praxis in American Indian Studies to root Native lives in the real world.
机译:在《家园》中,我通过探索文化复苏与政治觉悟紧密交织的方式来解释非殖民化过程的理论含义。在美洲印第安人历史上,这两个概念有着千丝万缕的联系,因为美国殖民主义通过政治征服和文化剥夺压迫土著人民。借助近年来兴起的理论体系,一种跨学科的“现实主义”方法来研究身份和文化,我提出了一种尖锐的本质主义-后现代主义反对派的替代方案,我认为,这种反对派不允许我们理解自然主义的本质。土著斗争。因此,这项工作从根本上关系到我们如何发展一种身份认同理论的问题,该理论不仅可以解释本土小说,而且可以解释其所指对象的日常生活和希望的未来。美国印第安人的殖民状况,并通过解构通常有害的“印第安人”种族类别,成功地挑战了统治社会对原住民文化“真实”的本质主义要求。但是,在颠覆种族和文化差异的观念时,后现代主义理论家也无法直面为什么为什么每天经历真正的种族和民族压迫的殖民地土著人民的世界实际上可能不同于大多数人民的现实。理论传统认为(美洲印第安人)文化认同不是基础的或真实的,而是关系的;现实主义者认为,所谓的“身份”具有认知(与纯粹的情感或情感相对)基础,并且能够准确地指代构成美洲印第安人生活的社会事实。因此,从理论上讲,文化恢复的过程不是对历史历史本质的追求,而是被理解为通过身份和经验进行的不断探究的辩证法。从历史上看,这本乡土小说是在1960年代末期和1970年代的红色力量运动中,这是美洲印第安人激进的政治赋权和文化复兴的时刻,我展示了三本小说如何回应这一时代的事件:N。Scott Momaday的《房屋由黎明,詹姆士·韦尔奇(James Welch)的《鲜血中的冬天》和莱斯利·马蒙·西尔科(Leslie Marmon Silko)的仪式代表了现实的过程,在这一过程中,政治觉醒和文化复兴齐头并进。在我对这些小说的阅读中,我通过绘制与土地的关系的恢复以及这一过程产生的价值,发展了一种非本质主义的本土文化身份概念。在一项针对当今美国监狱系统中美洲印第安人的监禁研究中,将土著小说纳入了日常生活。我将展示我对土著经验和身份的理解如何更好地支持我们的政治干预,并说明在美洲印第安人研究中进行实践以将土著生活植根于现实世界的必要性。

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  • 作者

    Teuton, Sean Timothy.;

  • 作者单位

    Cornell University.;

  • 授予单位 Cornell University.;
  • 学科 Literature American.;Sociology Ethnic and Racial Studies.;American Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 417 p.
  • 总页数 417
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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