{"product_id":"the-transit-of-empire-indigenous-critiques-of-colonialism-paperback-softback-9780816676415","title":"The Transit of Empire; Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816676415","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndigenous Critiques of Colonialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJodi A. Byrd (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816676415\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.434 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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Theoretically rich, and broad in its intellectual scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e puts Indianness at the center of American histories that are not only national, but explicitly imperial and colonial. Jodi Byrd’s brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship, transforming both in the process.  It is a work of power, complexity, and commitment, and should not be missed by anyone in these fields.\" -Philip Deloria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated and groundbreaking work of indigenous critical theory in which Jodi Byrd reveals and explores the cacophonies of colonialism in literary, historical, and political settings.\" -Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable “Indianness” that facilitates acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislations-from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma’s vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization bill-Byrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eByrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to reimagine a future where the losses of indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: Full Fathom Five\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry\u003cbr\u003e2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony\u003cbr\u003e3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability\u003cbr\u003e4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy”\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Zombie Imperialism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670841815320,"sku":"9780816676415","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-transit-of-empire-indigenous-critiques-of-colonialism-paperback-softback-9780816676415","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}