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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Martin, Joel. "Cultural Hermeneutics on the Frontier: Colonialism and the Muscogulge Millenarian Revolt of 1813," Duke University, April 1988. (11, 2, 16)
The dissertation examines cultural contact among Creek Indians, Africans and Europeans from 1670 to 1814, and based on this background, interprets the “Redstick” millenarian revolt of 1813. By taking this religious revolt of the colonized seriously, the dissertation treats the Creeks as subjects of their own history and recovers an alternative interpretation of the meaning of cultural contact and colonialism in the New World. Thus, the dissertation inclines us toward a repressed tradition of “American Studies.“ At the level of method, this “heterological” inclination is realized through tapping the History of Religions and poststructuralist thought (Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari).
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