Abstract
The term transnational has had a strong impact in various corners of literary and cultural studies over the past decade, but is only now emerging as a significant category of analysis among Native American writers and critics and in Native American Studies. This essay grew out of a specific attempt to make some sense of why so many Native scholars in literary studies have steered clear of discourse on the transnational. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of how criticism fits into larger constellations of ethnic studies, politics, and culture.
Highlights
In grappling with some of the problems that arise in bringing Native American perspectives into a discussion of transnationality, I am not a partisan for such avoidance
Instead of adopting an American identity, newcomers sustain a cosmopolitan consciousness.’[4]. This essay proceeds from an interest in why Native critics generally have not adopted a more robust position on transnationalism in contrast to these conceptualisations
This interest contributes to my ongoing agenda of charting the uneasy, yet I contend productive, relationship most Native scholars have to the leading theoretical approaches in contemporary literary studies and social theory
Summary
In grappling with some of the problems that arise in bringing Native American perspectives into a discussion of transnationality, I am not a partisan for such avoidance.
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