The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon. By Amy M. Ware

Autor:	Barbara Bair
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	History Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Native American studies Transnational citizenship Making-of language.human_language Politics Cherokee Identity (philosophy) language Performance art Sociology Icon computer computer.programming_language media_common
Zdroj:	Western Historical Quarterly. 47:362-363
ISSN:	1939-8603 0043-3810
DOI:	10.1093/whq/whw057
Popis:	The Cherokee Kid: Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon . CultureAmerica Series. By Amy M. Ware. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. x + 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50.) “Was Will Rogers Really an Indian?” Amy M. Ware posits at the start of The Cherokee Kid (p. xi). Her study of Rogers’s personal politics of identity and the Cherokee roots of his performance art and public impact leaves little doubt of the answer. Ware synthesizes evidence mined from previously published works by and about Rogers with the newest standards of scholarship in Native American studies, offering her own deep reading of Rogers’s choices and words. The result is a multilayered elucidation of Rogers’s Indianness, Cherokeeness, and transnational citizenship in … bbai{at}loc.gov
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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