Individuality Incorporated

Indians and the Multicultural Modern

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Spanning the 1870s to the present, Individuality Incorporated demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, and the history of subjectivity. Joel Pfister proposes an ingenious critical and historical reinterpretation of constructions of “Indians” and “individuals.” Native Americans have long contemplated the irony that the government used its schools to coerce children from diverse tribes to view themselves first as “Indians”-encoded as the evolutionary problem-and then as “individuals”-defined as the civilized industrial solution. As Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, and Black Elk attest, tribal cultures had their own complex ways of imagining, enhancing, motivating, and performing the self that did not conform to federal blueprints labeled “individuality.” Enlarging the scope of this history of “individuality,” Pfister elaborates the implications of state, corporate, and aesthetic experiments that moved beyond the tactics of an older melting pot hegemony to impose a modern protomulticultural rule on Natives. The argument focuses on the famous Carlisle Indian School; assimilationist novels; Native literature and cultural critique from Zitkala-Sa to Leslie Marmon Silko; Taos and Santa Fe bohemians (Mabel Dodge Luhan, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Austin); multicultural modernisms (Fred Kabotie, Oliver La Farge, John Sloan, D’Arcy McNickle); the Southwestern tourism industry’s development of corporate multiculturalism; the diversity management schemes that John Collier implemented as head of the Indian New Deal; and early formulations of ethnic studies. Pfister’s unique analysis moves from Gilded Age incorporations of individuality to postmodern incorporations of multicultural reworkings of individuality to unpack what is at stake in producing subjectivity in World America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-02-16
Mått152 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Americanists
Antal sidor360
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822332923

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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiIntroduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Role of Individuality 1PART ONE Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals 291 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers 312 The School of Savagery: “Indian” Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle 97 PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated 1333 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of “Lost” White Individuality 135 4 Indians Inc.:Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management 185 Afterward: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization 229Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism 253Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle 257Abbreviations in Notes 259Notes 261Index 321

“Individuality Incorporated is a real contribution to American cultural studies. Its reexaminations of the Carlisle School, John Collier, and the Taos bohemians produce a detailed picture of the uses of ‘Indianizing.’ The book is of real service to discussions of race, assimilation, and individualism in the twentieth century.”-Tom Lutz, University of Iowa “Joel Pfister’s book shows how Indians served as subjects for quite specific American ideological projects, in this case, projects involving different conceptions of the ‘individual.’ Pfister’s extensive archival research makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Richard Henry Pratt and the Carlisle Indian School and of John Collier and the Indian New Deal. He pays careful attention to such earlier Native writers and activists as Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin, Luther Standing Bear, and D’Arcy McNickle as well to contemporary Native writers like Leslie Marmon Silko, Jimmie Durham, and Sherman Alexie, among several others. This is a wide-ranging and important book.”-Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College