Ethnocriticism

Ethnography, History, Literature

Arnold Krupat

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780520334427
• eBook ISBN: 9780520334434
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures. For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature have sought to represent the Indian in America. Krupat considers all these discourses and the ways in which Indians have attempted to "write back, " producing an oppositional—or at least a parallel—discourse. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION: Ethnocriticism
• 1. ETHNOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE: A History of Their Convergence
• 2. MODERNISM, IRONY, ANTHROPOLOGY: The Work of Franz Boas
• 3. ETHNOGRAPHIC CONJUNCTURALISK: The Work of James Clifford
• 4. FIGURES AND THE LAW: Rhetorical Readings of Congressional and Cherokee Texts
• 5. LITERARY “CRITICISM” / NATIVE AMERICAN “LITERATURE”
• 6. NATIVE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE SYNECDOCHIC SELF
• CONCLUSION: For Multiculturalism
• Works Cited
• Index