The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s) [electronic resource] : Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing.

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Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Territorialities of U.S. Imperalism(s -- 1.1 Has the Constitution Ever Followed the Flag? Making a Case for the Continuity of Fluidity -- 1.1.1 The Messy Genealogy of the Westphalian Nation-State and the Incorporation of Indigenous Territories -- 1.1.2 Upsetting the "Idea of 1898": The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy -- 1.2 Culture as Law and Indigenous Life Writing -- 1.3 Reading Across Indigenous Perspectives: Potentials and Pitfals

1.4 Embracing Limitations: Positionalities and the Analysis of Indigenous Life Writing and U.S. Imperialism(s) -- 2. Overriding/Overwriting U.S. Sovereignty: John Rollin Ridge's 'The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.1 Poetic License and Legal Fictions in U.S. Federal Indian Law -- 2.1.1 Overriding Sovereignty in the Marshall Trilogy -- 2.1.2 Poetic Justice in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2 Overriding/Overwriting the Law in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2.1 Domesticity and Sovereignty in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2.2 "An author who acted out his own tragedies": 'Joaquín Murieta' as a Legal Text

2.2.3 Haunted by 'Cherokee Nation': John Rollin Ridge's Verdict in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 3. Disavowing Sovereignty to Strengthen It: Geronimo's and Stephen M. Barrett's 'Geronimo's Story of His Life' -- 3.1 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 'Geronimo's Story of His Life' -- 3.2 Western Domesticity and Apache Sovereignty -- 3.3 "Such were the events in 'Apache Land'": Disavowing U.S. Sovereignty to Strengthen It -- 3.4 The Interpreter and the Continuity of Apache Life -- 4. Overriding and Disavowing Sovereignty Queen Lili'uokalani's 'Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen'

4.1 Travelling Across "Little Spots in the Broad Pacific" and "Vast Continents" -- 4.2 U.S. Continentality and the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom -- 4.3 Disavowing and Overriding U.S. Sovereignty: The 'Morgan Report' -- 4.4 Kanaka Maoli Interventions and Articulations of Sovereignty -- 4.5 Kanaka Maoli Conceptualizations of Territory -- 4.6 "There is not, and never was any such a person as 'Lili'uokalani Dominis'": The Continuity of Hawaiian Sovereignty in 'Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen' -- 5. Conclusion(s): The Grammar of U.S. Imperialism(s) -- 6. Works Cited -- Backcover

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