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Blood Narrative de Chadwick Allen

Blood Narrative

Autor Chadwick Allen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2002

Ne-a atras atenția Blood Narrative – Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts prin modul curajos în care pune în dialog două spații geografice îndepărtate, dar unite de o istorie a rezistenței în fața colonialismului: America de Nord și Noua Zeelandă. Apreciem cum Chadwick Allen reușește să demonstreze că literatura și activismul nu sunt sfere separate, ci instrumente prin care comunitățile indigene și-au recâștigat vocea după cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Cartea nu se limitează la o analiză estetică, ci pătrunde adânc în „complexul sânge/pământ/memorie”, explicând modul în care identitatea este construită în opoziție cu definițiile impuse de coloniștii europeni. Merită menționat că autorul acordă o importanță deosebită discursului juridic, analizând tratatele dintre popoarele native și guvernele S.U.A. sau Marii Britanii. Această abordare transformă lectura dintr-un studiu literar clasic într-o cercetare interdisciplinară fascinantă despre putere și reprezentare. Volumul este construit pe o structură comparativă riguroasă, evidențiind paralelele dintre renașterea culturală Maori și cea a indienilor americani din anii '60 și '70. Pe aceeași linie cu The Land Is Our History de Miranda Johnson, care explorează activismul legal indigen, lucrarea lui Allen se diferențiază prin accentul pus pe tacticile narative și pe modul în care textele literare devin acte de suveranitate. Față de o altă lucrare importantă a autorului, Earthworks Rising, unde se concentrează pe semnificația movilelor indigene ca situri ale viitorului, în Blood Narrative accentul cade pe documentul scris și pe memoria colectivă ca forme de rezistență politică. Este o lectură densă, dar esențială pentru a înțelege complexitatea identității într-o lume care tinde să omogenizeze experiențele minoritare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822329473
ISBN-10: 0822329476
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă celor interesați de studii culturale, istorie și drepturile omului. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care comunitățile marginalizate folosesc cuvântul scris pentru a-și revendica pământul și identitatea. Este un instrument teoretic solid care demonstrează că lupta pentru resurse este, în egală măsură, o luptă pentru controlul propriei povești în fața istoriei oficiale.

Despre autor

Chadwick Allen este profesor de literatură engleză la Ohio State University și o voce autoritară în studiul culturilor native, ocupând funcția de editor asociat al jurnalului „Studies in American Indian Literatures”. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Earthworks Rising și Trans-Indigenous, este dedicată metodologiilor de cercetare globală a indigenității. Prin lucrările sale, Allen propune o reevaluare a vocilor indigene, nu doar ca subiecte ale trecutului, ci ca agenți activi ai prezentului și viitorului, conectând tradițiile locale cu mișcările globale de decolonizare.

Descriere scurtă

Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians, groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical power in making both their voices and their own sense of indigeneity heard.Allen shows how both Maori and Native Americans resisted the assimilationist tide rising out of World War II and how, in the 1960s and 1970s, they each experienced a renaissance of political and cultural activism--and literary production--that culminated in the formation of the first general assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. He focuses his comparison on two fronts: first, the blood/land/memory complex that refers to these groups' struggle to define indigeneity and to be freed from the definitions of authenticity imposed by dominant settler cultures. Allen's second focus is on the discourse of treaties between American Indians and the U.S. government and between Maori and Great Britain, which he contends offer strong legal and moral bases from which these indigenous minorities can argue land and resource rights as well as cultural and identity politics.With its implicit critique of multiculturalism and of postcolonial studies that have tended to neglect the colonized status of indigenous First World minorities, Blood Narrative will appeal to students and scholars of literature, American and European history, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and comparative cultural studies.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Marking the Indigenous in Indigenous Minority Texts1: A Directed Self-DeterminationA Marae on Paper: Writing a New Maori World in Te Ao HouIndian Truth: Debating Indigenous Identity After Indians in the War2: An Indigenous RenaissanceRebuilding the Ancestor: Constructing Self and Community in the Maori RenaissanceBlood/ Land / Memory: Narrating Indigenous Identity in the American Indian RenaissanceConclusion: Declaring a Fourth WorldAppendix: Integrated Time Line, World War II to 1980Notes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"Allen's book is well documented. . . . [T]he parallel that Allen traces between the Maoris and the American Indians is enlightening.”--Natacha Gagné, Pacific Affairs"The strength of Allen’s provocative book lies in its analysis of the literature that emerged during the Maori and American Indian ‘renaissance’ of the 1960s and early 1970s. . . . Allen’s comparative study is worth a careful read for scholars interested in the construction of indigenous identities in postcolonial situations.”--James O. Gump, Pacific Historical Review"Blood Narrative, by Chadwick Allen. . . ,is a welcome addition to post-modern studies, steeped in postcolonial theory.”--Benjamin Kracht, History: Reviews of New Books"[An] exemplary transnational project. . . . Allen's book displays-in addition to a broad grasp of certain theories, bodies of literature and criticism, and historical records-original, independent thinking. These strengths are complemented by the clarity and coherence of his prose. . . . This is a noteworthy book that deserves wide reading.”--Stephen Tatum, Western American Literature"Blood Narrative is a valuable, wise, and thoughtful study.”--Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, American Literature"Chadwick Allen has produced a complex and significant study, which contributes to the growing body of research, writing and teaching in the comparative history of Indigenous Peoples. . . . [H]is work has created new understanding about both the meanings and contradictions of indigenous identity. . . . This book would be profitable reading for those Australians, both indigenous and non-indigenous, who seek recognition of the basic sovereign rights enshrined in a treaty.”--Roderic Lacey, Journal of Pacific History"Blood Narrative is recommended both for its localizations and its potential to spill over into adjacent fields of Indigenous study with impact.”--Michael Jacklin, The Australian Journal of AnthropologyMixed review in American Ethnologist. Also reviewed in Choice and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Listed in CHE, Ethnicities, and Race and Class. Reviewed in French in Anthropologies et Societés. Negative review in Contemporary Literature.
"Allen's book is well documented... [T]he parallel that Allen traces between the Maoris and the American Indians is enlightening."--Natacha Gagne, Pacific Affairs "The strength of Allen's provocative book lies in its analysis of the literature that emerged during the Maori and American Indian 'renaissance' of the 1960s and early 1970s... Allen's comparative study is worth a careful read for scholars interested in the construction of indigenous identities in postcolonial situations."--James O. Gump, Pacific Historical Review "Blood Narrative, by Chadwick Allen... ,is a welcome addition to post-modern studies, steeped in postcolonial theory."--Benjamin Kracht, History: Reviews of New Books "[An] exemplary transnational project... Allen's book displays-in addition to a broad grasp of certain theories, bodies of literature and criticism, and historical records-original, independent thinking. These strengths are complemented by the clarity and coherence of his prose... This is a noteworthy book that deserves wide reading."--Stephen Tatum, Western American Literature "Blood Narrative is a valuable, wise, and thoughtful study."--Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, American Literature "Chadwick Allen has produced a complex and significant study, which contributes to the growing body of research, writing and teaching in the comparative history of Indigenous Peoples... [H]is work has created new understanding about both the meanings and contradictions of indigenous identity... This book would be profitable reading for those Australians, both indigenous and non-indigenous, who seek recognition of the basic sovereign rights enshrined in a treaty."--Roderic Lacey, Journal of Pacific History "Blood Narrative is recommended both for its localizations and its potential to spill over into adjacent fields of Indigenous study with impact."--Michael Jacklin, The Australian Journal of Anthropology Mixed review in American Ethnologist. Also reviewed in Choice and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Listed in CHE, Ethnicities, and Race and Class. Reviewed in French in Anthropologies et Societes. Negative review in Contemporary Literature.

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"I cannot think of a more provocative or evocative title for a book that addresses the narrative tactics and activism of indigenous writings. Allen draws upon the tactical differences deployed by American Indian and New Zealand Maori writers to provide insights into the ways that indigenous minority writing has defined an enduring identity of indigeneity. "Blood Narrative" is elegantly written, provocative in some of its arguments, rich in examples and well worth reading."--Linda Tuhiwai Smith, The University of Auckland

Descriere

Compares the discourses of indigeneity used by Maori and Native American peoples and proposes the concept treaty discourse to characterize the relevant form of postcolonial situation.