Dissertation/ Thesis
Anticolonial Abstractions Race, Labor, and Literary Form in Native American and Asian American Modernism
| العنوان: | Anticolonial Abstractions Race, Labor, and Literary Form in Native American and Asian American Modernism |
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| المؤلفون: | Jong, Lisa |
| المساهمون: | Miller, Joshua L, Desai, Manan R, Howard, June M, Lyons, Scott Richard |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | University of Michigan: Deep Blue |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Modernism and Native American and Indigenous Literature, Asian American Literature, Abstraction, Colonialism, U.S. Empire, Regionalism, English Language and Literature, Humanities |
| الوصف: | This dissertation studies what I describe as acts of anticolonial abstraction in fiction by Native American and Asian American authors published in the early decades of twentieth century. “Abstraction” as a key term in literary and cultural studies is strongly associated with processes and structures that cause death and harm, such as the material and discursive violence of colonialism, empire, racial capitalism, and cultures of spectacle and commodity consumption. It is also tied to the rarified aesthetics of canonical modernism, which use experiments with linguistic defamiliarization, perspective-shifting, and ellipsis to register the alienation of European subjects from the forces of modernity. Meanwhile, modern aesthetic formations like Primitivism, Orientalism, and certain strains of American regionalism, mined the arts and artifacts of colonized and subjected groups for abstract forms—the African mask, the Chinese ideogram, the Southwest textile pattern—to animate European and European American projects of cultural renewal. In a selection of literary texts by or about indigenous people, I locate an alternative strain of modernist literary invention in which marginalized figures create abstract forms and engage in activities and styles of narration I gather under the rubric of abstraction. By distinguishing colonial practices of material and cultural extraction from the agential forms of abstraction I identify in these texts and authors, I show how they deploy abstraction in service of their own aims, including individual and group survival and impulses towards literary innovation. Far from a disembodied departure from everyday life, anticolonial abstractions in these texts assert indigenous domesticities, crafts, and forms of agential movement and mobility as central to the story of modernism and modernity on the North American continent. I cultivate my reading methods through a set of fields and critical approaches rarely put into dialogue, drawing from studies of Native American and Indigenous ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | thesis |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/174260; https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/5991; orcid:0000-0003-0945-2495; Jong, Lisa; 0000-0003-0945-2495 |
| DOI: | 10.7302/5991 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/174260 https://doi.org/10.7302/5991 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.D115A906 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.7302/5991 |
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