The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field. Incorporating an international scope of essays, this volume reaches beyond traditional national or euroamerican boundaries to locate North American Indigenous modernities and modernisms in a hemispheric context. Covering key theoretical approaches and topics, this volume includes
Diverse explorations of Indigenous cultural and intellectual production in treatments of dance, poetry, vaudeville, autobiography, radio, cinema, and more
Investigation of how we think about Indigenous lives, literatures, and cultural productions in North America from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Surveys of critical geographies of Indigenous literary and cultural studies, including refocused and reframed exploration of the diverse cultures, knowledges, traditions, geographies, experiences, and formal innovations that inform Indigenous literary, intellectual, and cultural productions
The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms presents fresh insight to modernist studies, acknowledging and reconciling the occluded histories of Indigenous erasure, and inviting both students and scholars to expand their understanding of the field.
Author(s): Kirby Brown, Stephen Ross, Alana Sayers
Series: Routledge Literature Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 328
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introductory Conversation
Notes
Part Geographies
1 When a Mound Isn’t a Mound, But Is: Figuring (And Fissuring) Earthworks in Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night
Picnics With the Dead
The Feel of Flint
Sterile Fissure
Notes
References
2 Modernist Activities and Native Acts in and Around Northern New Mexico
Modernization and Indigeneity in Northern New Mexico
Maria Montoya Martínez (1887–1980)
Antonio (Tony) Luján (1879–1963)
Rollie Lynn Riggs (1899–1954)
Keywords for Southwestern Indigenous Modernisms
References
3 “God Gave Us the Seals”: Makah Relational Modernity and the Consequences of Settler Conservation
Crafting a Relational Modernity
Conservation and Settler Modernity
Notes
References
4 Geographies of Allotment Modernisms
Notes
References
5 Beyond the Bureau of American Ethnology: Remembering the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood as a Co-National Network …
Notes
References
6 The Unsettling Times of Zitkála-Šá and Grazia Deledda
Different Politics, Different Forms
A Modern Woman
From Is Also Beyond
Coda: Expand to Fill, Shrink to Fit
Notes
References
Part Temporalities
7 John Joseph Mathews, Francis La Flesche, and the Indigenous World of the North American Midcontinent
Francis La Flesche and The Scene of History
John Joseph Mathews and the Middle Waters
Conclusion: Movement, Water, Earth, Sky
References
8 Corporate Tribalism: Indigeneity, Modernity, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Life On the Land
“Hunger Knows No Law:” The Beginnings of Alaska Native Land Claims
Indigenous Land Claims in Alaska
Notes
References
9 Indigeneity and the Caribbean: Some Periodical Perspectives
Introduction
Indigeneity: A Widened Definition
Indigenous Peoples in Bim and Kyk-Over-Al
Indigeneity and Modernist Experiment
Conclusions
Note
References
10 Native/Black Birds: Voicing the Ruptures of Modernity Through Joy Harjo’s Indigenous Jazz Poetics
Indigenous Ways of Listening to a Blackbird
From the Sound of the Indian to Tribal Jazz
Paying Tribute
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Casualties of Modernism: The Affects and Afterlives of Kent Monkman’s Automobiles
Monkman and Modernism
Automobiles
When Wastelands Are Homelands
Notes
References
Part Genres and Forms
12 The Form(s) of Allotment
Rolls
Blood
Business
Notes
References
13 Fugitive Indigeneity in Paul Green’s The Last of the Lowries and Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night
Notes
References
14 Minor Characters, Modernity, and the Indigenous Modernist Novel: John Joseph Mathews, D’Arcy McNickle, and ...
The Politics of Minor Characters
Paredes’s and Hurston’s Indigenous Minor Characters
The Politics of Characterization in Indigenous Modernist Fiction
Conclusion
Notes
References
15 Indigenous Modernity On Celluloid at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Indians of the American Imagination
Documenting the “Vanishing Indian”: The Romance of a Vanishing Race (1916)
A Different Kind of “Indian Drama”: The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
16 Henry Starr’s Outlaw Modernism
The Modernist and Assimilationist Period(s)
Henry G. Starr (1873–1921)
Thrilling Events: Henry Starr’s Outlaw Modernism
“You’re Not the Indian I Had in Mind”
Notes
References
Part Venues
17 False Idols: Totemism, Reification, and Anishinaabe Culture in Modernist Thought
Notes
References
18 Performance Circuits, Vaudeville Bits, and Indigenous Resilience
Gathering Places and Sites of Power
Vaudeville Bits and Indigenous Mobilities
Mass Culture and Modernities
Notes
References
19 Indigenous Cinema and the Studio System: The Case of Edwin Carewe’s The Snowbird (1916)
Edwin Carewe On and Off Stage
Reading The Snowbird
Place and Setting
Gender, Race and Genre
Conclusion
Notes
References
20 Syncretic Modernism and The Chemawa American
Transcoloniality
Intertribality
Intertextuality
Intertemporality
The Chemawa American and Syncretic Modernism
Notes
References
21 The Five Moons: Ballet’s Modernist Indigenous Starscape
Rosella Hightower: The International Icon
Moscelyne Larkin: The Soubrette and the “Cowgirl”
The Tallchiefs: America’s First Prima Ballerina and America’s First Premiére Danseuse Étoile
Yvonne Chouteau: The “Tall-Shoe” and the “Silverheel”
Notes
References
Afterword: Troubling the Indigenous Modern
Reference
Index
