1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms
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.
Preface
Philip J. Deloria
Introductory Conversation
Kirby Brown, Stephen Ross, Alana Sayers
GEOGRAPHIES
1. When a Mound Isn’t a Mound, But Is: Figuring (and Fissuring) Earthworks in Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night
Chadwick Allen
2. Modernist Activities and Native Acts in and around Northern New Mexico
Geneva M. Gano
3. "God Gave Us the Seals": Makah Relational Modernity and the Consequences of Settler Conservation
Joshua Reid
4. Geographies of Allotment Modernisms
Jonathan Radocay
5. Beyond the Bureau of American Ethnology: Remembering the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood as a Co-National Network of Indigenous Writers
Michael Taylor
6. The Unsettling Times of Zitkála-Šá and Grazia Deledda
Sonita Sarker
TEMPORALITIES
7. John Joseph Mathews, Francis La Flesche, and the Indigenous World of the North American Midcontinent
Angela Calcaterra
8. Corporate Tribalism: Indigeneity, Modernity, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
Shari M. Huhndorf
9. Indigeneity and the Caribbean: Some Periodical Perspectives
Louise Kane
10. Native/Black Birds: Voicing the Ruptures of Modernity through Joy Harjo’s Indigenous Jazz Poetics
Audrey Goodman
11. Casualties of Modernism: The Affects and Afterlives of Kent Monkman’s Automobiles
Deena Rymhs
GENRES & FORMS
12. The Form(s) of Allotment
Mark Rifkin
13. Fugitive Indigeneity in Paul Green’s The Last of the Lowries and Lynn Riggs’s The Cherokee Night
James H. Cox and Alexander Pettit
14. Minor Characters, Modernity, and the Indigenous Modernist Novel: John Joseph Mathews, D’Arcy McNickle, and John Milton Oskison
Leif Sorensen
15. Indigenous Modernity on Celluloid at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Cristina Stanciu
16. Henry Starr’s Outlaw Modernism
Jenna Hunnef
VENUES
17. False Idols: Totemism, Reification, and Anishinaabe Culture in Modernist Thought
Adam Spry
18. Performance Circuits, Vaudeville Bits, and Indigenous Resilience
Christine Bold
19. Indigenous Cinema and the Studio System: The Case of Edwin Carewe’s The Snowbird (1916)
Joanna Hearne
20. Syncretic Modernism and The Chemawa American
Amanda J. Zink
21. The Five Moons: Ballet's Modernist Indigenous Starscape
Shannon Toll
Afterword: Troubling the Indigenous Modern
Daniel Heath Justice
Biography
Kirby Brown is an Associate Professor of Native American Literatures in the Department of English and the Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Stephen Ross is a Professor of English and Cultural, Social, and Political Thought at the University of Victoria.
Alana Sayers is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Victoria specializing in Indigenous literatures and Native American and Indigenous Studies. She is Hupačasath (Nuu-chah-nulth) and Kipohtakaw (Cree, Treaty 6) First Nations.
