Out of the Melting Pot, into the Nationalist Fires: Native American Literary Studies in Europe

Autor/in	Madsen, Deborah
Titel	Out of the Melting Pot, into the Nationalist Fires: Native American Literary Studies in Europe
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 35 (2011) 3, S.353-371 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; American Indian Literature; American Indian Studies; American Indians; Anthropology; Foreign Countries; Writing Instruction; United States Literature; Teaching Methods; Nationalism; American Studies; Comparative Education; United States History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Anthropologie; Ausland; Schreibunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Nationalismus; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
Abstract	It is difficult to overestimate the differences between Native American studies in Europe and the United States. In Europe there are no dedicated university programs in Native American studies; instead, disciplinary units such as American studies or departments such as English, history, development studies, and anthropology house teaching and research programs in Native studies. The institutional conditions under which Native literary studies takes place in a European context give rise to four primary methodological approaches: (1) national (though not necessarily tribal nationalist); (2) multiethnic; (3) universal; and (4) postcolonial. European scholars of Native American literary studies often find themselves grappling with methodological issues that lie between the twin nationalist claims of a generalizing and potentially assimilative "American studies" approach and a Native American literary nationalist approach, like that outlined by Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack in their groundbreaking book "American Indian Literary Nationalism". It is to these claims that the author's title gestures while referencing Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's important observation that frequently representations of Native Americans in the literary canon, in the teaching of Native American literature, and in scholarly publications are used as "the basis for the cynical absorption into the "melting pot," pragmatic inclusion in the canon, and involuntary unification of an American literary voice." (Contains 2 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10