{"product_id":"mapping-the-americas-the-transnational-politics-of-contemporary-native-culture-paperback-softback-9781501705663","title":"Mapping the Americas; The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501705663","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMapping the Americas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eShari M. Huhndorf (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501705663\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 August 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 8 halftones, 1 line drawing - 8 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before Columbus arrived, the indigenous peoples of the Americas were transnational—their migrations, trade routes, and story sharing attest to this. After Columbus, additional layers of colonial and postcolonial transnationalism complicated this process in horrifically tragic ways but also in positive expressions of hybridization and sovereignty. In clear and convincing prose, \u003ci\u003eMapping the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e places the complex dynamics of tribal transnationalism at the forefront of Native American and American studies. Shari M. Huhndorf addresses this multilayered process from appropriately multiple angles by examining the colonization of Alaska, Inuit media, transnational feminism—including a provocative reading of Spiderwoman Theater's \u003ci\u003eSun Moon and Feather\u003c\/i\u003e—and the transnational, transtime visual narratives of Silko's \u003ci\u003eAlmanac of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. Huhndorf concludes with a brilliant reading of the portraits, maps, and sculpture of Shelley Niro's installation \u003ci\u003eThe Border\u003c\/i\u003e—a reading that incorporates Mohawk images and the importance of women while highlighting the turn to the transnational in post-1980 indigenous politics, art, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e - Kenneth M. Roemer, University of Texas at Arlington, coeditor (Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMapping the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003ethus 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\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHuhndorf 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\u003e addresses this neglect by considering what happens to American studies when you put Native studies at the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607765676312,"sku":"9781501705663","price":19.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mapping-the-americas-the-transnational-politics-of-contemporary-native-culture-paperback-softback-9781501705663","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}