Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern

Joel Pfister

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Individuality Incorporated

Indians and the Multicultural Modern

Joel Pfister
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2004

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Explores the drive of whites to "individualize" Indians -- showing them how they should pursue happiness, find the meaning of life and how they should labor.

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Joel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is a coeditor of Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America and the author of Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse and The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction.

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“Individuality 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

“Joel Pfister’s book shows how Indians served as subjects for quite specific American ideological projects, in this case, projects involving different conceptions of the ‘individual.’ Pfister’s extensive archival research makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Richard Henry Pratt and the Carlisle Indian School and of John Collier and the Indian New Deal. He pays careful attention to such earlier Native writers and activists as Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin, Luther Standing Bear, and D’Arcy McNickle as well to contemporary Native writers like Leslie Marmon Silko, Jimmie Durham, and Sherman Alexie, among several others. This is a wide-ranging and important book.”—Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Lessons Indians Can Teach American Studies about the Rule of Individuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART ONE Categorizing and Institutionalizing Indians and Individuals
1 Carlisle as Individualizing Factory: Making Indians, Individuals, Workers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Digesting ‘‘Indians’’: Assimilation as Individualizing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Possessive and Domestic Individualizing: Treason to the Tribe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Complexity, Critical Thinking, and Performance at Carlisle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
Pratt’s Carlisle (1879–1904): Class, Race, Warfare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
Carlisle, Consumer Culture, and Loaded Cultural Relativism (1904–1918) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
Education for What? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
2 The School of Savagery: ‘‘Indian’’ Formations of Subjectivity and Carlisle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Literary Indianizing: Discourses of Native Cultural Subjectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
Parodying Parroting: Faking Individual and Indian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
PART TWO Multicultural Modernity Incorporated
3 Modernist Multiculturalism: Lawrence, Luhan, and the White Therapeutic Indianizing of ‘‘Lost’’ White Individuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Toward Therapeutic Imperialism: Garland and the Modernizing of Digestion Management Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
White Therapeutic Primitivism and the Indian Business: Environmental, Soulful, and Literary ‘‘Indians’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Giving Them the Business: ‘‘Indians’’ in the Therapeutic and Modernist Marketplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	152
Rhythmic Ethnomodernism: Luhan, Lawrence, Austin, and the Fantasy of Individualized Liberation in Tribal Scenes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	166
‘‘Indians’’ in the Bloodstream: The Politics of Lawrence’s Psychological Critique of American Individualizing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
4 Indians Inc.: Collier’s New Deal Diversity Management Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Collier’s Saviourism: Radical Polemicist against Individualizing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Anti-Imperial Romanticism: Collier as Social Theorist of ‘‘Indians’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
Imperial Self-Government: Reorganizing ‘‘Indians’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Detours from the Therapeutic: La Farge’s and McNickle’s Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Taos, Collier, and the Multicultural Containment of Critique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	220
Afterword: Diversity Incorporated and World Americanization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Appendix 1 Notes on Natives and Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Appendix 2 A Proposal to Reopen Carlisle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Abbreviations in Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321

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February 16, 2004

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9780822385660

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360

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10 b&w photos, 5 figures

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Individuality Incorporated

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