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Manifesting America - The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (Paperback)
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Manifesting America - The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space (Paperback)
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The book explores the creation and extension of U.S. jurisdiction
in the antebellum period, particularly over Native Americans and
former Mexicans. It examines how U.S. law recodes the identities
and territoriality of these populations and the self-depictions
they offer in nonfictional texts. The government's narration of
national space is haunted and disturbed by the persistence of the
political geographies of peoples made domestic in the absorption of
indigenous and Mexican lands. Exploring the confrontation between
U.S. law and the self-representations of those once-alien peoples
subjected to it, the book focuses on Indian removal in the
southeast and western Great Lakes and the annexation of Texas and
California. In foregrounding self-determination, a central concept
in current international debates over the rights of indigenous
peoples, the project challenges the somewhat amorphous image of
betweenness conveyed by such prominent critical formulations as
"the borderlands," "the middle ground," and "the contact zone,"
examining a variety of writings (including memorials,
autobiographies, and histories) produced by imperially displaced
populations for the ways that they index specific forms of
collectivity and placemaking disavowed by U.S. policy. More
specifically, it shows how U.S. institutions legitimize conquest as
consensual by creating forms of official recognition and speech for
dominated groups that reinforce the obviousness of U.S. mappings
and authority, and it demonstrates how forcibly internalized
populations disjoint, refunction, and contest the roles created for
them so as to create room in public discourse for critiquing U.S.
efforts to displace their existing forms of land tenure and
governance.
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