Mark Rifkin: 5 books
Settler Common Sense
Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political...
Beyond Settler Time
Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In Beyond Settler Time Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues,...
Erotics of Sovereignty
Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
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.”...
When Did Indians Become Straight?
Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
When Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between contested U.S. notions of normality and shifting forms of Native American governance and self-representation. Examining a wide range of texts (including captivity narratives, fiction, government documents, and anthropological...
Manifesting America
The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Manifesting America explores how Native American and Mexican American writers use various kinds of nonfiction to challenge the ideology of manifest destiny.