{"product_id":"the-transit-of-empire-9780816676415","title":"The Transit of Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Theoretically rich, and broad in its intellectual scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e puts Indianness at the center of American histories that are not only national, but explicitly imperial and colonial. Jodi Byrd’s brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship, transforming both in the process.  It is a work of power, complexity, and commitment, and should not be missed by anyone in these fields.\" —Philip Deloria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated and groundbreaking work of indigenous critical theory in which Jodi Byrd reveals and explores the cacophonies of colonialism in literary, historical, and political settings.\" —Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Full Fathom Five\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry\u003cbr\u003e2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony\u003cbr\u003e3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability\u003cbr\u003e4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy”\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Zombie Imperialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405967368535,"sku":"9780816676415","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816676415.jpg?v=1730494078","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-transit-of-empire-9780816676415","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}