More Than Talking Animals: Charles Alexander Eastman's Animal Peoples and Their Kinship Critiques of United States Colonialism
| Autor: | Christopher J. Pexa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Linguistics and Language
History Literature and Literary Theory Folklore Personhood 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Colonialism 050701 cultural studies Language and Linguistics Power (social and political) 0602 languages and literature Sioux Indians Kinship Ethnology American literature |
| Zdroj: | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 131:652-667 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.1632/pmla.2016.131.3.652 |
| Popis: | Red Hunters and the Animal People (1904), an early collection of stories for children by Charles Alexander Eastman, a Dako$$ta author, was largely viewed by his critical contemporaries as a politically innocuous analogue to Kipling's Jungle Book Stories. Through consideration of the Dako$$ta oral-historical genre of hituᒋkaᒋkaᒋpi (“long ago stories”) and of Dako$$ta peoplehood more broadly, this article proposes an alternative view of Eastman as a resistance writer who cited a long-circulating Dako$$ta kinship philosophy to criticize the enduring conditions of United States settler colonialism—a criticism that would become more pointed in his later, better-known autobiography, From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1915). In viewing Eastman's animal tales as opposed to United States colonialism, we may see more clearly his innovative translations of Dako$$ta politics into narratives that both appealed to and challenged United States settler society. These challenges were made in relation to Dako$$ta conceptions of peoplehood, power, and gift. |
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