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The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law

By: Eric Cheyfitz

A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America In The Colonial Construction of Indian Country, Eric Cheyfitz mounts a pointed historical critique of colonialism through careful analysis of the dialogue between Native American literatures and federal Indian law. Illuminating how these literatures indict colonial practices, he argues that if the decolonization of Indian country is to be achieved, then federal Indian law must be erased and replaced with independent Native nation sovereignty—because subordinate sovereignty, the historical regime, is not sovereignty at all. At the same time, Cheyfitz argues that Native American literatures, specifically U.S. American Indian literatures, cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of U.S. federal Indian law: the matrix of colonialism in Indian country. Providing intersectional readings of a range of literary and legal texts, he discusses such authors as Louise Erdrich, Frances Washburn, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. Cheyfitz examines how American Indian writers and critics have responded to the impact of law on Native life, revealing recent trends in Native writing that build upon traditional modes of storytelling and governance. With a focus on resistance to the colonial regime of federal Indian law, The Colonial Construction of Indian Country not only elucidates how Native American literatures and federal Indian law are each crucial to any reading of the other, it also guides readers to better understand the genocidal assault on Indigenous peoples by Western structures of literacy, politics, and law.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452970513

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The Disinformation Age

The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Disinformation Age

The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

By: Eric Cheyfitz

This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines a more sustainable and democratic alternative.

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Taylor & Francis

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135183908X

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The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

By: Eric Cheyfitz

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on core themes of identity, sovereignty, and land. In his essay comprising part I of the volume, Eric Cheyfitz argues persuasively for the necessary conjunction of Indian literatures and federal Indian law from Apess to Alexie. Part II is a comprehensive survey of five genres of literature: fiction (Arnold Krupat and Michael Elliott), poetry (Kimberly Blaeser), drama (Shari Huhndorf), nonfiction (David Murray), and autobiography (Kendall Johnson), and discusses the work of Vine Deloria Jr., N. Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Sherman Alexie, among many others. Drawing on historical and theoretical frameworks, the contributors examine how American Indian writers and critics have responded to major developments in American Indian life and how recent trends in Native writing build upon and integrate traditional modes of storytelling. Sure to be considered a groundbreaking contribution to the field, The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 offers both a rich critique of history and a wealth of new information and insight.

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The Disinformation Age

The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

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The Poetics of Imperialism

Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Poetics of Imperialism

Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan

By: Eric Cheyfitz

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812216091

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The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law

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Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876

By: Eric Wertheimer

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Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876

By: Eric Wertheimer

A 1999 study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521622298

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To Wake the Nations

Race in the Making of American Literature

By: Eric J. Sundquist

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To Wake the Nations

Race in the Making of American Literature

By: Eric J. Sundquist

Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.

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Harvard University Press

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067489331X

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Strangers in the Land

Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

By: Eric J Sundquist

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Strangers in the Land

Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

By: Eric J Sundquist

The importance of blacks for Jews and Jews for blacks in conceiving of themselves as Americans, when both remained outsiders to the privileges of full citizenship, is a matter of voluminous but perplexing record. A monumental work of literary criticism and cultural history, Strangers in the Land draws upon politics, sociology, law, religion, and popular culture to illuminate a vital, highly conflicted interethnic partnership over the course of a century.

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0674044142

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Home as Found

Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Eric J. Sundquist

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Home as Found

Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Eric J. Sundquist

Originally published in 1979. Eric Sundquist takes four representative writers—James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville—and considers the way in which each grapples with the crucial issues of genealogy and authority in his works. From all four a common pattern emerges: the desire to revolt against the past is countered by the need to invoke or even repeat it. Sundquist's approach to the texts is psychoanalytic, but he does not attempt a clinical dissection of each writer; rather, he determines how personal crisis became material for engaging with larger questions of social and literary crisis.

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JHU Press

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1421431009

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The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

By: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Temple of Perfection

A History of the Gym

By: Eric Chaline

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The Temple of Perfection

A History of the Gym

By: Eric Chaline

These days there is only one right answer when someone asks you what you are doing after work. Hitting the gym! With an explosion of apps, clothing, devices, and countless DVDs, fitness has never felt more modern, and the gym is its holy laboratory, alive with machinery, sweat, and dance music. But we are far from the first to pursue bodily perfection—the gymnasium dates back 2,800 years, to the very beginnings of Western civilization. In The Temple of Perfection, Eric Chaline offers the first proper consideration of the gym’s complex, layered history and the influence it has had on the development of Western individualism, society, education, and politics. As Chaline shows, how we take care of our bodies has long been based on a complex mix of spiritual beliefs, moral discipline, and aesthetic ideals that are all entangled with political, social, and sexual power. Today, training in a gym is seen primarily as part of the pursuit of individual fulfillment. As he shows, however, the gym has always had a secondary role in creating men and women who are “fit for purpose”—a notion that has meant a lot of different things throughout history. Chaline surveys the gym’s many incarnations and the ways the individual, the nation-state, the media, and the corporate world have intersected in its steamy confines, sometimes with unintended consequences. He shows that the gym is far more than a factory for superficiality and self-obsession—it is one of the principle battlefields of humanity’s social, sexual, and cultural wars. Exploring the gym’s history from a multitude of perspectives, Chaline concludes by looking toward its future as it struggles to redefine itself in a world in thrall to quick fixes—such as plastic surgery and pharmaceuticals—meant to attain the gym’s ultimate promises: physical fitness and beauty.

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1780234791

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The Younger (Thinner) You Diet

How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Help You Lose Weight, Reverse Aging, and Fight Disease

By: Eric R. Braverman, MD

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The Younger (Thinner) You Diet

How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Help You Lose Weight, Reverse Aging, and Fight Disease

By: Eric R. Braverman, MD

New research in nutrition and weight loss has revealed an amazing discovery: the brain—virtually neglected in all other diet plans—is the most important organ in dieting. Dieters can actually lose weight by eating foods, nutrients, teas, and spices that change the chemical balance of the brain for permanent weight loss—a major factor contributing to how quickly the body ages. In fact, everyone can take years off their age by changing their brain chemistry. In Younger (Thinner) You Diet, Dr. Eric Braverman expands upon concepts introduced in Younger You to present a totally new approach to lifelong weight management, where the key is not found in counting carbs, fat grams, or calories. Obesity is a brain chemical imbalance, an addictive disorder, treated successfully only through the combined approach of diet, nutrients, and hormones. One of the foremost experts in integrative medicine, known for his work on the brain-body connection, Dr. Braverman teaches readers: -which foods naturally boost the body's production of dopamine, the chemical in the brain that tells the body to start its fat-burning engine -how to choose foods, supplements, teas, and spices—even hormones and medicine—to avoid the effects of other aging organs that can destroy one's metabolism -how to personalize the diet for specific health concerns, such as heart problems, aging skin, weak muscles, and achy joints Eliminating the frustration and deprivation of conventional dieting, Younger (Thinner) You Diet will help anyone turn back the clock to a slimmer, healthier, younger you.

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Book's by Eric Cheyfitz

The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

The Disinformation Age

The Disinformation Age

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

The Disinformation Age

The Disinformation Age

The Poetics of Imperialism

The Poetics of Imperialism

The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

The Colonial Construction of Indian Country

Imagined Empires

Imagined Empires

To Wake the Nations

To Wake the Nations

Strangers in the Land

Strangers in the Land

Home as Found

Home as Found

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

The Temple of Perfection

The Temple of Perfection

The Younger (Thinner) You Diet

The Younger (Thinner) You Diet

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