{"product_id":"speaking-for-the-people-9781478014331","title":"Speaking for the People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings by William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša to rethink and reframe contemporary debates around recognition, refusal, and resurgence for Indigenous peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mark Rifkin examines important nineteenth-century Native literary figures' engagement with settler publics by laying out a nuanced introspection of their ‘portraits of peoplehood’ during tumultuous contexts and the costs of such representativity that foster tension in the present day. He resituates the discussion of recognition to this earlier period in order to detour from a settler stronghold on political definitions still used to impact the daily life of Indigenous peoples. Delving deep into the political spheres of violence and the nuanced political forms of Indigenous life that emerge, Rifkin gives us further grounds to explore the foundations and formations of slippery recognition politics.” -- Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e“Presenting new, insightful, nuanced, and persuasive readings of four key figures in nineteenth-century Native American literature, \u003ci\u003eSpeaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e is both timely and poised to become a classic study in Native and Indigenous studies, anthropology, and American literary studies. An interdisciplinary tour de force.” -- Birgit Brander Rasmussen, author of * Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e is as useful for scholars and students of contemporary indigenous studies as it is for those pursuing the study of 19th-century literature, politics, and indigenous peoples. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- J. J. Donahue * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In\u003ci\u003e Speaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e Mark Rifkin contributes to the ongoing critical conversation regarding Indigenous recognition. In richly historicized chapters he questions the process of how Indigenous leaders . . . consciously stage the 'legitimacy of their entry' into the discursive frameworks of coloniality.\" -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e reasserts the usefulness and relevance of literary studies in fashioning Indigenous political theory. Rifkin demonstrates how nineteenth-century Native texts have had to navigate settler worldings to express peoplehood and how their intellectual labor of negotiatedness should inspire present-day scholarship. His demonstration is as compelling as it is unsettling.\" -- Mathilde Louette * Transatlantica *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is valuable for literary scholars and Indigenous scholars alike to articulate the complexity of Indigenous activism in a settler state.\" -- Alison Russell * New England Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSpeaking for the People\u003c\/i\u003e has generated a rich set of coordinates and queries for analyzing nineteenth-century Native writing, and Rifkin’s readings model how these questions take us deep into nineteenth-century Native political discussions while resonating in contemporary NAIS scholarship.\" -- Kelly Wisecup * Native American and Indigenous Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. What's in a Nation? Cherokee Vanguardism in Elias Boudinot's \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Experiments in Signifying Sovereignty: Exemplarity and the Politics of Southern New England in William Apess  77\u003cbr\u003e 3. Among Ghost Dances: Sarah Winnemucca and the Production of Paiute Identity  127\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Native Informant Speaks: The Politics of Ethnographic Subjectivity in Zitkala-Ša's Autobiographical Stories  176\u003cbr\u003e Coda. On Refusing the Ethnographic Imaginary, or Reading for the Politics of Peoplehood  221\u003cbr\u003e Notes  235\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  277\u003cbr\u003e Index  301","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408995656023,"sku":"9781478014331","price":19.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014331.jpg?v=1730505015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/speaking-for-the-people-9781478014331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}