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May 13, 2013
Domestic Subjects
Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature
Summary
The suspension of the so-called "Indian Wars" did not signal colonialism's end, only a different battlefield. "The calvary man was supplanted--or, rather, supplemented--by the field matron, the Hotchkiss by the transit, and the prison by the school," writes Beth H. Piatote. "A turn to the domestic front, even as the last shots at Wounded Knee echoed in America's collective ear, marked not the end of conquest but rather its renewal."
Yet the domestic space was not only a target of invasion; it was also a site of resistance, a fertile ground for Native authors to define what counted as love, home, and kin in an era of coercive assimilation. In Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature (Yale University Press, 2013), Piatote brilliantly reads the work of late nineteenth century writers like Pauline Johnson, S. Alice Callahan, D'arcy McNickle and others as a contest over settler domestication. Piatote offers an eloquent exploration of incredible courage and literary acumen, with resonance in our own political moment.
