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Blood Narrative - Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Paperback)
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Blood Narrative - Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Paperback)
Series: New Americanists
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"Blood Narrative" is a comparative literary and cultural study of
post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori
and American Indians--groups who share much in their responses to
European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex
narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these
societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical
power in making both their voices and their own sense of
indigeneity heard.
Allen shows how both Maori and Native Americans resisted the
assimilationist tide rising out of World War II and how, in the
1960s and 1970s, they each experienced a renaissance of political
and cultural activism and literary production that culminated in
the formation of the first general assembly of the World Council of
Indigenous Peoples. He focuses his comparison on two fronts: first,
the blood/land/memory complex that refers to these groups'
struggles to define indigeneity and to be freed from the
definitions of authenticity imposed by dominant settler cultures.
Allen's second focus is on the discourse of treaties between
American Indians and the U.S. government and between Maori and
Great Britain, which he contends offers strong legal and moral
bases from which these indigenous minorities can argue land and
resource rights as well as cultural and identity politics.
With its implicit critique of multiculturalism and of postcolonial
studies that have tended to neglect the colonized status of
indigenous First World minorities, "Blood Narrative" will appeal to
students and scholars of literature, American and European history,
multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and comparative cultural
studies.
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