When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

Type

Book

Authors

Mark Rifkin

ISBN 10

0199755469

ISBN 13

9780199755462

Tags

History, Criticism & Theory, United States, Linguistics, Native American Studies, American Literature, Social Sciences

Description

When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological tracts), Mark Rifkin offers a cultural and literary history of the ways Native peoples have been inserted into Euramerican discourses of sexuality and how Native intellectuals have sought to reaffirm their peoples' sovereignty and self-determination. - from Amzon

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