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by Mark Rifkin


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In 1970 the Nixon administration inaugurated a new era in federal Indian policy. No more would the U.S. government seek to deny and displace Native peoples or dismantle Native governments; from now on federal policy would promote "the Indian's sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community."

In The Erotics of Sovereignty, Mark Rifkin offers a telling perspective on what such a policy of self-determination has meant and looks at how contemporary queer Native writers use representations of sensation to challenge official U.S. accounts of Native identity. Rifkin focuses on four Native writers--Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), Deborah Miranda (Esselen), Greg Sarris (Graton Rachera), and Chrystos (Menominee)--approaching their fiction and poetry as forms of political theory.

Rifkin shows how the work of these queer or two-spirit Native writers affirms the significance of the erotic as an exercise of individual and community sovereignty. In this way, we come to see how their work contests the homophobic, sexist, and exclusivist policies and attitudes of tribal communities as well as those of the nation-state.

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  • Title The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination
  • Author Mark Rifkin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press
  • Date 2012-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780816677832 / 0816677832
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
  • Library of Congress subjects Gays' writings, American - History and, American literature - Indian authors -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011044240
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.989

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Mark Rifkin is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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