عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
IR
310T
انگلیسی
IR
A romance with many reservations: American Indian figurations and the globalization of indigeneity
[Thesis]
;supervisor: Freeman, Elizabeth
University of California, Davis: United States -- California
: 2009
221 pages
Ph.D.
, University of California, Davis: United States -- California
By examining a range of media practices during the height of land speculation in the 1850s, the making of the "citizen" and the "immigrant" in the mid 1920s, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the beginning of the Cold War, "With Many Reservations" argues that American Indian figurations are set to reservation time. If reservation means at once, a geopolitical territory (the spaces to which Native Americans have been forcefully relocated), something held back (putting something "in reserve"), something secured in advance (making a reservation), and the feeling of doubt (I have reservations about this), then reservation time signifies the ways in which American Indian figurations are withheld, deemed inscrutable and indecipherable, and then tapped and decoded at crucial moments for the development of U.S. global power. I show how Native Americans are figured as hieroglyphics, secretive and unknowable, but ultimately decipherable in order to become code talkers for the nation-state.Chapter One examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables and Herg�'s comic Tintin in America each foreground and unsettle the figure of the vanishing Indian through multiple historical frames: land speculation, Indian removal, and the time in which reservations get tapped for global capital. Chapter Two contends that the 1925 film The Vanishing American figures American Indians in geologic time, a register that conflicts with the burgeoning discourse of naturalization and citizenship in the Progressive period. The film casts American Indians in what I call primitive futurity , which carries the vestiges of an ancient, "primitive" past into a projected national future. In Chapter Three, I unpack the terms alien and indigenous and argue that from the end of World War II to the U.S. lunar landing, the nation-state alienates the "native," so that indigenous figures in texts such as Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey seem to come from somewhere else, either a geologic past or a supernatural future. I conclude that the nation-state is invested in holding alienated subjects, such as natives and queers, in reserve. The Epilogue considers the pervasiveness of Indian casinos and the relationship between gambling and reservation time.
American studies
American history
American literature
Native American studies
American Indians
Figuration
Native America
Queer
Reservation
Temporality
Thompson, Kara
Freeman, Elizabeth, supervisor
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TL090.pdf
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