{"product_id":"alternative-contact-9781421400600","title":"Alternative Contact","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into three thematic sectionsSpaces of the Pacific, Unexpected Indigenous Modernity, and Nation and Nation-State\u003ci\u003eAlternative Contact\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Native American studies and empowerment movements in the 1960s and 1970s decentered paradigms of Native AmericanEuropean first contact. Among other kinds of contact, the contributors also imagine alternative connections between indigenous and American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subject of United States military and government hegemony has long overshadowed discussions of contact with peoples of other origins. The articles in this volume explore transnational and cross-ethnic exchanges among indigenous peoples of the Americas, including the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Such moments o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Alternative Contact] provides a refreshingly new approach to previous scholarship while it simultaneously offers scholars solid, well-researched analyses for further exploration of the transnational perspective. -- Susan Savage Lee American Indian Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Spaces of the Pacific \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Attacking Trust: Hawai'i as a Crossroads and Kamehameha Schools in the Crosshairs\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Kēwaikaliko's \u003ci\u003eBenocide\u003c\/i\u003e: Reversing the Imperial Gaze of \u003ci\u003eRice v. Cayetano\u003c\/i\u003e and its Legal Progeny\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Indigeneity in the Diaspora: The Case of Native Hawaiians at Iosepa, Utah\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Bridging Indigenous and Immigrant Struggles: A Case Study of American Sāmoa\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Experimental Encounters: Filipino and Hawaiian Bodies in the U.S. Imperial Invention of Odontoclasia, 1928–1946\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino\/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: \"Unexpected\" Indigenous Modernity \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Decolonization in Unexpected Places: Native Evangelicalism and the Rearticulation of Mission\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Transnational Indigenous Exchange: Rethinking Global Interactions of Indigenous Peoples at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \"Sioux Yells\" in the Dawes Era: Lakota \"Indian Play,\" the Wild West, and the Literatures of Luther Standing Bear\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, and Todd Downing's Detective Novels\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Maori Cowboys, Maori Indians\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura's Photography, 1903–1913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Nation and Nation-State \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Between Dangerous Extremes: Victimization, Ultranationalism, and Identity Performance in Gerald Vizenor's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Toward a U.S.-China Comparative Critique: Indigenous Rights and National Expansion in Alex Kuo's\u003ci\u003e Panda Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. \"Sowing Death in Our Women's Wombs\": Modernization and Indigenous Nationalism in the 1960s Peace Corps and Jorge Sanjinés' \u003ci\u003eYawar Mallku\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408104825175,"sku":"9781421400600","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421400600.jpg?v=1730501598","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alternative-contact-9781421400600","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}