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Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832 ed. by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke (review)

Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832 ed. by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke (review) Book Reviews{ 821 Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603­1832 Edited by Joshua DaviD Bellin and laura l. Mielke, afterword by philip J. Deloria Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012 333 pp. Native Acts establishes performance--alongside keywords in other recent edited collections such as literacies and media--as an important conceptual node in the network of scholarship that composes the emergent field of early Native American studies. As Laura Mielke notes in her lucid introduction, the contributors participate in "the elusive but necessary recovery of Native people's role in the intercultural performative contexts of the colonial Americas, often (and necessarily) through texts that are themselves complex performances from within intercultural contexts" (3). In the terms furnished by Diana Taylor in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke UP, 2003), these scholars examine the archive to learn about the interaction between indigenous and colonial repertoires, recognizing that the archive itself may be a site of such interaction. Although Mielke frames the volume with reference to performance studies theorists like Taylor, only some of the essays draw on scholarship in that field. Another framing reference is Philip Deloria's Playing Indian (Yale UP, 1998); in the afterword to Native http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603–1832 ed. by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke (review)

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Early American Literature , Volume 49 (3) – Oct 26, 2014
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Book Reviews{ 821 Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603­1832 Edited by Joshua DaviD Bellin and laura l. Mielke, afterword by philip J. Deloria Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012 333 pp. Native Acts establishes performance--alongside keywords in other recent edited collections such as literacies and media--as an important conceptual node in the network of scholarship that composes the emergent field of early Native American studies. As Laura Mielke notes in her lucid introduction, the contributors participate in "the elusive but necessary recovery of Native people's role in the intercultural performative contexts of the colonial Americas, often (and necessarily) through texts that are themselves complex performances from within intercultural contexts" (3). In the terms furnished by Diana Taylor in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke UP, 2003), these scholars examine the archive to learn about the interaction between indigenous and colonial repertoires, recognizing that the archive itself may be a site of such interaction. Although Mielke frames the volume with reference to performance studies theorists like Taylor, only some of the essays draw on scholarship in that field. Another framing reference is Philip Deloria's Playing Indian (Yale UP, 1998); in the afterword to Native

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