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Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law
David J. Carlson
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Description for Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law
Paperback. Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness". Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 345.
This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. Historically, Native American autobiographers have written in the shadow of "Indian law," a nuanced form of natural law discourse with its own set of related institutions and forms (the reservation, the treaty, etc.). In Sovereign Selves, David J. Carlson develops a rigorously historicized argument about the relationship between the specific colonial model of "Indian" identity that was developed and disseminated through U.S. legal institutions, and the acts of autobiographical ... Read more
This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. Historically, Native American autobiographers have written in the shadow of "Indian law," a nuanced form of natural law discourse with its own set of related institutions and forms (the reservation, the treaty, etc.). In Sovereign Selves, David J. Carlson develops a rigorously historicized argument about the relationship between the specific colonial model of "Indian" identity that was developed and disseminated through U.S. legal institutions, and the acts of autobiographical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072666
SKU
V9780252072666
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About David J. Carlson
David Carlson is an assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.
Reviews for Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law
"The book is most engaging. . . . One of the strengths of Sovereign Selves is its commitment to a complex reading of the history of engagement between colonial power and Native Americans. . . . Because Carlson shows a clear trend toward the kind of rights talk being used by American Indians today, his book has the potential to ... Read more