Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

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What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency.

Chadwick Allen is professor of English and coordinator of American Indian studies at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts.

"Chadwick Allen's articulation of a Trans-Indigenous methodology is clear-minded, robust, and urgent. A committed focus on specific texts is underpinned by deep and genuinely reflective intellectual, ethical, and political commitments. Trans-Indigenous both emphasizes and will be a key player in the configuration of global Indigenous literary studies; yet it is able, through its sheer specificity, to speak provocatively and productively beyond a singular discipline or nation." -Alice Te Punga Somerville, Victoria University of Wellington