Allen, Chadwick
Trans-Indigenous
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816678198
- author:
- Allen, Chadwick
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 13.97 x 2.03 x 21.59 centimetres
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Chadwick Allen proposes a new approach to Native literary studies by exploring diverse texts and traditions from around the world. By comparing different forms of Indigenous self-representation, he aims to foreground the richness of Indigenous agency and reclaim aspects of the Indigenous archive that have been overlooked. Allen draws on various systems of Indigenous aesthetics, such as pictographic discourse and Maori carving traditions, as well as technologies like large-scale earthworks and ocean-voyaging waka. This approach allows for a provocative reorientation of the call for Native intellectual, artistic, and literary sovereignty, prioritizing the global Indigenous perspective. By examining diverse texts and contexts, Allen offers a new framework for understanding contemporary Indigenous literature and its place within broader discussions of Indigenous struggle and agency.
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