Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

Chadwick Allen

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Blood Narrative

Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

Chadwick Allen
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383826

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About this book

Compares the discourses of indigeneity used by Maori and Native American peoples and proposes the concept treaty discourse to characterize the relevant form of postcolonial situation.

Author / Editor information

Chadwick Allen is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University and Associate Editor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures.

Reviews

“Chadwick Allen traces the ‘inseparable triad’ of blood, land, and memory in two cultures and distinct generations of indigenous writers and activists. Blood Narrative is an original, persuasive consideration of Native American Indian and New Zealand Maori tropes of indigenous identity. Natives and the Maori created viable identities in ‘dominant discourses’ during the Second World War, but the pride of national service was not a practicable source of indigenous identities in the simulations of postwar modernity. A generation later identities were constructed by political resistance, literary subversion, and cultural activism. Many writers have asserted ‘blood memory’ as a strategy of contemporary indigenous identity and survivance. Allen provides a cogent, astute critique of these memorable triads and complex turns of identity.”—Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley

“I cannot think of a more provocative or evocative title for a book that addresses the narrative tactics and activism of indigenous writings. Allen draws upon the tactical differences deployed by American Indian and New Zealand Maori writers to provide insights into the ways that indigenous minority writing has defined an enduring identity of indigeneity. Blood Narrative is elegantly written, provocative in some of its arguments, rich in examples and well worth reading.”—Linda Tuhiwai Smith, The University of Auckland

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Marking the Indigenous in Indigenous Minority Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I A Directed Self-Determination
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1. A Marae on Paper: Writing a New Maori World in Te Ao Hou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
2. Indian Truth: Debating Indigenous Identity after Indians in the War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
PART II An Indigenous Renaissance
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3. Rebuilding the Ancestor: Constructing Self and Community in the Maori Renaissance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
4. Blood/Land/Memory: Narrating Indigenous Identity in the American Indian Renaissance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Conclusion: Declaring a Fourth World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Appendix: Integrated Time Line, World War II to 1980 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 319

eBook

Published: August 6, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383826