Encountering the Sovereign Other
Title | Encountering the Sovereign Other PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam C. Brown Spiers |
Publisher | MSU Press |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2021-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1628954477 |
Science fiction often operates as either an extended metaphor for human relationships or as a genuine attempt to encounter the alien Other. Both types of stories tend to rehearse the processes of colonialism, in which a sympathetic protagonist encounters and tames the unknown. Despite this logic, Native American writers have claimed the genre as a productive space in which they can critique historical colonialism and reassert the value of Indigenous worldviews. Encountering the Sovereign Other proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding Indigenous science fiction, placing Native theorists like Vine Deloria Jr. and Gregory Cajete in conversation with science fiction theorists like Darko Suvin, David Higgins, and Michael Pinsky. In response to older colonial discourses, many contemporary Indigenous authors insist that readers acknowledge their humanity while recognizing them as distinct peoples who maintain their own cultures, beliefs, and nationhood. Here author Miriam C. Brown Spiers analyzes four novels: William Sanders’s The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, Stephen Graham Jones’s It Came from Del Rio, D. L. Birchfield’s Field of Honor, and Blake M. Hausman’s Riding the Trail of Tears. Demonstrating how Indigenous science fiction expands the boundaries of the genre while reinforcing the relevance of Indigenous knowledge, Brown Spiers illustrates the use of science fiction as a critical compass for navigating and surviving the distinct challenges of the twenty-first century.
The Sovereign Other
Title | The Sovereign Other PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Claire Brown Spiers |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2014 |
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My dissertation examines the intersections of Native American literature and science fiction, paying particular attention to the ways that Indigenous worldviews and the concerns of Native communities are first expressed through and then alter the conventional generic tropes of science fiction. I argue that, by adapting these genre conventions and rewriting them from Indigenous perspectives, Native writers depict the difficulty of being recognized as human without being culturally assimilated and create a productive space that reinforces the value of Indigenous cultures. My project examines Native science fiction as it initiates a conversation between Native American Studies and science fiction theory, illuminating both fields' treatment of identity and the Other. Native peoples share a history of European colonization and have thus experienced frequent encounters with alterity, moments of coming face to face with culturally distinct Others. In science fictional terms, we might refer to this moment as "the shock of dysrecognition," Philip K. Dick's phrase for the defining characteristic of science fiction. Individual works of science fiction may use an encounter with the Other as a metaphor for exploring human relationships and discovering similarities between groups, or they may make a genuine attempt to encounter an Other, to imagine something beyond their own comprehension. Many Native authors situate their science fiction novels as a response to these older discourses; they wish to have their humanity acknowledged, but they also wish to be respected as distinct peoples who have the right to be recognized as sovereign nations. My project helps to chart and understand a new direction in Native American literature, which has become more interested as of late in genre and the possibilities inherent in formal experimentation. Building on the foundations of first and second generation Native authors, several contemporary writers have begun to explore the academically ambiguous world of science fiction. Ultimately, my dissertation fills a gap in both disciplines by examining the ways that Native science fiction articulates and embodies two seemingly contradictory demands in a multicultural society: first, to recognize the Other as human, and second, to respect the Other's right to maintain a distinct culture and worldview.
Worship Matters (Foreword by Paul Baloche)
Title | Worship Matters (Foreword by Paul Baloche) PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Kauflin |
Publisher | Crossway |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008-03-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1433519372 |
Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends. Bob Kauflin covers a variety of topics such as the devastating effects of worshiping the wrong things, how to base our worship on God's self-revelation rather than our assumptions, the fuel of worship, the community of worship, and the ways that eternity's worship should affect our earthly worship. Appropriate for Christians from varied backgrounds and for various denominations, this book will bring a vital perspective to what readers think they understand about praising God.
Sovereignty Or Submission
Title | Sovereignty Or Submission PDF eBook |
Author | John Fonte |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Total Pages | 476 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1594035296 |
The International Criminal Court claims authority over Americans for actions that the United States does not define as “crimes.” In short, the Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and transnational pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America’s leading elites, seek to establish “global governance.” Further, they understand that in order to achieve global governance, American sovereignty must be subordinated to the “global rule of law.” The U.S. Constitution must incorporate “evolving norms of international law.”Sovereignty or Submissionexamines this process with crystalline clarity and alerts the American public to the danger ahead. Global governance seeks legitimacy not in democracy, but in a partisan interpretation of human rights. It would shift power from democracies (U.S., Israel, India) to post-democratic authorities, such as the judges of the International Criminal Court. Global governance is a new political form (a rival to liberal democracy), that is already a significant actor on the world stage. America faces serious challenges from radical Islam and a rising China. Simultaneously, it faces a third challenge (global governance) that is internal to the democratic world; is non-violent; but nonetheless threatens constitutional self-government. Although it seems unlikely that the utopian goals of the globalists could be fully achieved, if they continue to obtain a wide spread influence over mainstream elite opinion, they could disable and disarm democratic self-government at home and abroad. The result would be the slow suicide of American liberal democracy. Whichever side prevails, the existential conflict'global governance versus American sovereignty (and democratic self-government in general) will be at the heart of world politics as far as the eye can see.
Sovereign
Title | Sovereign PDF eBook |
Author | C. J. Sansom |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 608 |
Release | 2008-02-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101221305 |
Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger – the highest honor in British crime writing The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London. Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
Field of Honor
Title | Field of Honor PDF eBook |
Author | D. L. Birchfield |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780806136080 |
Premise: "A secret underground civilization of Choctaws, deep beneath the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, has evolved into a high-tech culture, supported by the labor of slaves kidnapped from the surface."
Behold Our Sovereign God
Title | Behold Our Sovereign God PDF eBook |
Author | Mitchell L. Chase |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781935909521 |
The topic of divine sovereignty is weighty and often fraught with controversy. The Bible invites readers to behold God's meticulous reign over all things unto His Glory. His Lordship is not just general or abstract but particular and comprehensive.