Sovereign Selves : American Indian Autobiography and the Law

Name: Sovereign Selves
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252072666
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ISBN: 9780252072666

by David J. Carlson

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0252072669

ISBN-13 9780252072666

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 22nd, 2005

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 346 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.80 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Relating to Native American people / First Americans History of the Americas Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Indigenous peoples History of the Americas

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Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness".

This book is an exploration of how American Indian autobiographers'' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. Historically, Native American autobiographers have written in the shadow of "Indian law," a nuanced form of natural law discourse with its own set of related institutions and forms (the reservation, the treaty, etc.). In Sovereign Selves, David J. Carlson develops a rigorously historicized argument about the relationship between the specific colonial model of "Indian" identity that was developed and disseminated through U.S. legal institutions, and the acts of autobiographical self-definition by the "colonized" Indians expected to fit that model.

Carlson argues that by drawing on the conventions of early colonial treaty-making, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian autobiographers sought to adapt and redefine the terms of Indian law as a way to assert specific property-based and civil rights. Focusing primarily on the autobiographical careers of two major writers (William Apess and Charles Eastman), Sovereign Selves traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness."

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