{"product_id":"mapping-the-americas-the-transnational-politics-of-contemporary-native-culture-paperback","title":"Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShari M. Huhndorf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMapping the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as patriarchy, labor and environmental exploitation, the emergence of pan-Native urban communities, global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures.While nationalism remains a dominant anticolonial strategy in indigenous contexts, Huhndorf examines the ways in which transnational indigenous politics have reshaped Native culture (especially novels, films, photography, and performance) in the United States and Canada since the 1980s. \u003ci\u003eMapping the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e thus broadens the political paradigms that have dominated recent critical work in Native studies as well as the geographies that provide its focus, particularly through its engagement with the Arctic.Among the manifestations of these new tendencies in Native culture that Huhndorf presents are Igloolik Isuma Productions, the Inuit company that has produced nearly forty films, including \u003ci\u003eAtanarjuat, The Fast Runner\u003c\/i\u003e; indigenous feminist playwrights; Leslie Marmon Silko's \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e; and the multimedia artist Shelley Niro. Huhndorf also addresses the neglect of Native America by champions of \"postnationalist\" American studies, which shifts attention away from ongoing colonial relationships between the United States and indigenous communities within its borders to U.S. imperial relations overseas.This is a dangerous oversight, Huhndorf argues, because this neglect risks repeating the disavowal of imperialism that the new American studies takes to task. Parallel transnational tendencies in American studies and Native American studies have thus worked at cross-purposes: as pan-tribal alliances draw attention to U.S. internal colonialism and its connections to global imperialism, American studies deflects attention from these ongoing processes of conquest. \u003ci\u003eMapping the Americas \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses this neglect by considering what happens to American studies when you put Native studies at the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShari M. Huhndorf is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGoing Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, also from Cornell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51804823126304,"sku":"9781501705663","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/01f47d03d470d69669d1b9009c320e6e.webp?v=1780903230","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mapping-the-americas-the-transnational-politics-of-contemporary-native-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}