Manifesting America [electronic resource] : the imperial construction of U.S. national space / Mark Rifkin.
- 作者： Rifkin, Mark 1974-
- 出版： New York ;Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009.
- 叢書名： Oxford Scholarship Online
- 主題： American literature--History and criticism.--1783-1850 , American literature--History and criticism.--19th century , Human territoriality--Political aspects--History.--United States , Indians of North America--Land tenure. , Nationalism--History.--United States , United States--Boundaries. , United States--Race relations. , United States--Territorial expansion. , United States--Territorial expansion--Historiography.
- ISBN： 9780195387179
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電子書
- 一般註：Electronic reproduction. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005157419 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
In Manifesting America, Mark Rifkin explores how writings by Native Americans and former Mexicans challenge the legal narratives that normalize their absorption into U.S. national space. Demonstrating how the creation and extension of U.S. jurisdiction in the antebellum period functions as an imperial system, the book focuses on Indian removal in the southeast and western Great Lakes regions as well as the annexation of Texas and California. It tracks the confrontation between U.S. law and the self-representations of once-alien peoples subjected to it, showing how U.S. institutions legitimize conquest as consensual by creating forms of official recognition for dominated groups that reinforce the obviousness of U.S. mappings. However, these mappings remain haunted and disturbed by the persistence of the political geographies of indigenous and Mexican peoples made domestic in the process of national expansion. Examining a variety of nonfictional writings (including memorials, autobiographies, and histories) produced by imperially displaced populations, Rifkin illustrates how these texts contest the terms and dynamics of U.S. policy, indexing specific forms of collectivity and placemaking disavowed in official accounts.
摘要註
In this work, Mark Rifkin explores how writings by Native Americans and former Mexicans challenge the legal narratives that normalize their absorption into US national space.