ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms provides a powerful suite of innovative contributions by both leading thinkers and emerging scholars in the field. Incorporating an international scope of essays, this volume reaches beyond traditional national or euroamerican boundaries to locate North American Indigenous modernities and modernisms in a hemispheric context. Covering key theoretical approaches and topics, this volume includes:

  • Diverse explorations of Indigenous cultural and intellectual production in treatments of dance, poetry, vaudeville, autobiography, radio, cinema, and more
  • Investigation of how we think about Indigenous lives, literatures, and cultural productions in North America from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • Surveys of critical geographies of Indigenous literary and cultural studies, including refocused and reframed exploration of the diverse cultures, knowledges, traditions, geographies, experiences, and formal innovations that inform Indigenous literary, intellectual, and cultural productions

The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms presents fresh insight to modernist studies, acknowledging and reconciling the occluded histories of Indigenous erasure, and inviting both students and scholars to expand their understanding of the field.

part |85 pages

Geographies

chapter 1|12 pages

When a Mound Isn't a Mound, But Is

Figuring (and Fissuring) Earthworks in Lynn Riggs's The Cherokee Night

chapter 3|18 pages

“God Gave Us the Seals”

Makah Relational Modernity and the Consequences of Settler Conservation

chapter 5|11 pages

Beyond the Bureau of American Ethnology

Remembering the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood as a Co-National Network of Indigenous Writers

part |65 pages

Temporalities

chapter 8|12 pages

Corporate Tribalism

Indigeneity, Modernity, and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

chapter 9|11 pages

Indigeneity and the Caribbean

Some Periodical Perspectives

chapter 10|15 pages

Native/Black Birds

Voicing the Ruptures of Modernity through Joy Harjo's Indigenous Jazz Poetics

chapter 11|12 pages

Casualties of Modernism

The Affects and Afterlives of Kent Monkman's Automobiles

part |61 pages

Genres and Forms

part |70 pages

Venues

chapter 17|13 pages

False Idols

Totemism, Reification, and Anishinaabe Culture in Modernist Thought

chapter 19|14 pages

Indigenous Cinema and the Studio System

The Case of Edwin Carewe's The Snowbird (1916)

chapter 21|10 pages

The Five Moons

Ballet's Modernist Indigenous Starscape

chapter |4 pages

Afterword

Troubling the Indigenous Modern