{"product_id":"individuality-incorporated-indians-and-the-multicultural-modern-paperback","title":"Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoel Pfister\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the 1870s to the present, \u003ci\u003eIndividuality Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, and the history of subjectivity. Joel Pfister proposes an ingenious critical and historical reinterpretation of constructions of \"Indians\" and \"individuals.\" Native Americans have long contemplated the irony that the government used its schools to coerce children from diverse tribes to view themselves first as \"Indians\"-encoded as the evolutionary problem-and then as \"individuals\"-defined as the civilized industrial solution. As Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman, and Black Elk attest, tribal cultures had their own complex ways of imagining, enhancing, motivating, and performing the self that did not conform to federal blueprints labeled \"individuality.\" Enlarging the scope of this history of \"individuality,\" Pfister elaborates the implications of state, corporate, and aesthetic experiments that moved beyond the tactics of an older melting pot hegemony to impose a modern protomulticultural rule on Natives. The argument focuses on the famous Carlisle Indian School; assimilationist novels; Native literature and cultural critique from Zitkala-Sa to Leslie Marmon Silko; Taos and Santa Fe bohemians (Mabel Dodge Luhan, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Austin); multicultural modernisms (Fred Kabotie, Oliver La Farge, John Sloan, D'Arcy McNickle); the Southwestern tourism industry's development of corporate multiculturalism; the diversity management schemes that John Collier implemented as head of the Indian New Deal; and early formulations of ethnic studies. Pfister's unique analysis moves from Gilded Age incorporations of individuality to postmodern incorporations of multicultural reworkings of individuality to unpack what is at stake in producing subjectivity in World America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividuality Incorporated\" is a real contribution to American cultural studies. Its reexaminations of the Carlisle School, John Collier, and the Taos bohemians produce a detailed picture of the uses of 'Indianizing.' The book is of real service to discussions of race, assimilation, and individualism in the twentieth century.\"--Tom Lutz, University of Iowa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eInventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of \u003ci\u003eStaging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.24 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45893736825029,"sku":"9780822332923","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/a33RtKCXRB9780822332923.webp?v=1771935312","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/individuality-incorporated-indians-and-the-multicultural-modern-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}