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Indians Playing Indian
Monika Siebert
其他書名
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
出版
University of Alabama Press
, 2015-02-27
主題
Art / General
Art / History / General
Art / Indigenous Art of the Americas
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Canadian Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN
0817318550
9780817318550
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ajkyBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada
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.