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Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Indians Playing Indian - Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique
predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as
sovereign nations, mainstream popular culture continues to depict
them as cultural minorities similar to other ethnic Americans.
These depictions of indigenous peoples as "Native Americans"
complete the broader narrative of America as a refuge to the
world's immigrants and a home to contemporary multicultural
democracies, such as the United States and Canada. But they
fundamentally misrepresent indigenous peoples, whose American
history has been not of immigration but of colonization. Monika
Siebert's Indians Playing Indian first identifies this phenomenon
as multicultural misrecognition, explains its sources in North
American colonial history and in the political mandates of
multiculturalism, and describes its consequences for contemporary
indigenous cultural production. It then explores the responses of
indigenous artists who take advantage of the ongoing popular
interest in Native American culture and art while offering
narratives of the political histories of their nations in order to
resist multicultural incorporation. Each chapter of Indians Playing
Indian showcases a different medium of contemporary indigenous art
museum exhibition, cinema, digital fine art, sculpture, multimedia
installation, and literary fiction and explores specific rhetorical
strategies artists deploy to forestall multicultural misrecognition
and recover political meanings of indigeneity. The sites and
artists discussed include the National Museum of the American
Indian in Washington, DC; filmmakers at Inuit Isuma Productions;
digital artists/photographers Dugan Aguilar, Pamela Shields, and
Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie; sculptor Jimmie Durham; and novelist LeAnne
Howe.
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