Imagining Sovereignty: Self-determination In American Indian Law And Literature (volume 66) (american Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series)

Synopsis

'sovereignty' Is Perhaps The Most Ubiquitous Term In American Indian Writing Today - But Its Meaning And Function Are Anything But Universally Understood. This Is As It Should Be, David J. Carlson Suggests, For A Concept Frequently At The Center Of Various Claims To Authority. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson Explores Sovereignty As A Discursive Middle Ground Between Tribal Communities And The United States As A Settler-colonial Power. His Work Reveals The Complementary Ways In Which Legal And Literary Texts Have Generated Politically Significant Representations Of The World, Which In Turn Have Produced Particular Effects On Readers And Advanced The Cause Of Tribal Self-determination--unedited Summary From Book Cover. Part I. Grounding Sovereignty Discourse -- Colonial Contexts: Tribal Sovereignty In Western And U.s. Indian Law -- The Indian Vox Populi -- Collective Politics And Legal Interpretation -- Part Ii. Literary Discourses Of Self-determination -- The Pragmatics Of Literary Nationalism -- Elizabeth Cook-lynn And Treaty Reading -- Gerald Vizenor's Constitutional Praxis -- Critical Prospects: Sovereignty In The Cahuilla Storyway. David J. Carlson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-222) And Index.