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Griffin, Catherine C. "'Joined Together in History:' Politics and Place in African American and American Indian Women's Writing," American Studies, University of Minnesota, April 2000.
This dissertation begins with an unexpected, and unremarked on, similarity in African American and American Indian literary criticisms: discussions of place - the intersection of land and history - are articulated through ideas about modernity, and its “antithesis,” tradition. Addressing the available vocabularies for talking about place, I argue that putting Black and Indian literary criticisms side-by-side reveals both the pervasiveness and the limitations of ideas about modernity. Using an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on intellectual history and political theory, the dissertation searches for another paradigm through which to describe the significance of land and history. Maintaining that “belonging” and identity necessarily have political dimensions, I examine the relationship between concepts of place and issues of nationhood, community, sovereignty, and citizenship. Looking at African American and American Indian women’s novels both on their own and conjunctively, the dissertation considers what historical and political connections between Blacks and Indians in the U.S. reveal about the meanings of race, nationhood, and geography.
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