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The Scandal of Comparative Literature The Scandal of Comparative Literature
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Reject Scandal, Embrace Reading Reject Scandal, Embrace Reading
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Trans-Indigenous Projects: Inspiration from Across the Arts Trans-Indigenous Projects: Inspiration from Across the Arts
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Rethinking the Possibilities of Indigenous Anthologies Rethinking the Possibilities of Indigenous Anthologies
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Studying Indigenous-to-Indigenous Encounters Studying Indigenous-to-Indigenous Encounters
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Embracing Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies Embracing Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies
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24 Decolonizing Comparison: Toward a Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies
Get accessChadwick Allen is Professor of English and Coordinator for the American Indian Studies program at The Ohio State University. Author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (2002) and Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (2012), he is the current editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures.
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Published:03 February 2014
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Abstract
According to Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfred, the condition of colonialism persists and continues to evolve for Indigenous peoples in North America and other parts of the world. In the First World, however, Indigenous peoples face an increasingly postmodern imperialism, rather than territorial expropriation or direct institutional control. This chapter explores how active, purposeful comparative studies at the level of the Indigenous global can counter attacks on all forms of Indigenous intellectual autonomy and representation. It proposes what it calls a trans-Indigenous literary studies that performs the kind of “deep decolonization” described by Alfred and promotes, rather than limits, Indigenous authority and control. Trans-Indigenous literary scholarship aims to privilege comparative reading across, through, and beyond tribally and nationally specific Indigenous texts and contexts while working toward the denaturalization of the settler nation-state. Moreover, it attempts to resolve the rift between competing schools of scholarship on Native American and Indigenous literatures.
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