Blood narrative indigenous identity in American Indian and Maori literary and activist texts /

Blood narrative [electronic resource] : indigenous identity in American Indian and Maori literary and activist texts / Chadwick Allen.

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Compares the discourses of indigeneity used by Maori and Native American peoples and proposes the concept treaty discourse to characterize the relevant form of postcolonial situation.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Allen, Chadwick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
New Zealand literature > Maori authors > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > American and New Zealand.
Comparative literature > New Zealand and American.
Māori (New Zealand people) > Intellectual life.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indian activists > Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Group identity in literature.
American literature > Indian authors.
New Zealand literature > Maori authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : marking the indigenous in indigenous minority texts
  • Part I : A directed self-determination
  • A marae on paper : writing a new Maori world in Te ao hou
  • Indian truth : debating indigenous identity after Indians in the war
  • Part II : An indigenous renaissance
  • Rebuilding the ancestor: constructing self and community in the Maori renaissance
  • Blood/land/memory : narrating indigenous identity in the American Indian renaissance
  • Conclusion : declaring a fourth world.

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