...Lisa King This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also...

.... 2000 . “Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?” College Composition and Communication 51 : 447 – 68. Maracle, Lee. 1990 . Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel . Toronto: Women's Press. McIntosh, Peggy. 2002 . “Unpacking the Knapsack of White Privilege.” In White Privilege...

...-Mulligan Amy C. 2006 . “ The Anatomy of Power and the Miracle of Kingship: The Female Body of Sovereignty in a Medieval Irish Kingship Tale .” Speculum 81 : 1014 – 54 . Filppula Markku Klemola Juhani Paulasto Heli . 2008 . English and Celtic in Contact . New York : Routledge...

..., Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola,” is one example of this trend, but particularly relevant to the present discussion is Francis B. Nyamnjoh's ( 2017 ) monograph, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds , in which the author persuasively argues...

... produce the adjunctification of the university faculty, the discourse of best practices steps in to make sense of these policies, illustrating Jodie Melamed's ( 2011 : 41) argument that “neoliberal sovereignty requires knowledge systems that rationalize (in the sense of making available for reason...

... exercise on the various local sovereignty movements in Hawaii: “Looking into the multiple perspectives around Hawaiian Sovereignty the only thing that felt a teeny nerve wracking was paranoia of whether or not I was using appropriate labels, and at appropriate times.” Another student, commenting...

... E. , 149 – 96 . Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner . Kanazi Remi . 2015 . Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine . New York : Haymarket . Kay-Trask. Haunani . 1993 . From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii . Honolulu : University...

... student talked about how her cousins who live in other countries cannot understand how her family would have stayed in a country run by the Jews, instead of doing what any self-respecting Arab would do: leave before accepting Jewish sovereignty. Among Arabs, a few Palestinian students testified...

..., and then us.” Another chimed in, “All they wanted was independence; they wanted sovereignty over their home. It’s their home.” I said, “All good points. Of course, in the many centuries before that, Vietnam had been at war with China prior to the arrivals of the Japanese, French, and the US.” Someone...

..., and then us.” Another chimed in, “All they wanted was independence; they wanted sovereignty over their home. It’s their home.” I said, “All good points. Of course, in the many centuries before that, Vietnam had been at war with China prior to the arrivals of the Japanese, French, and the US.” Someone...

..., and then us.” Another chimed in, “All they wanted was independence; they wanted sovereignty over their home. It’s their home.” I said, “All good points. Of course, in the many centuries before that, Vietnam had been at war with China prior to the arrivals of the Japanese, French, and the US.” Someone...

... regard Indians (when they think of them at all) in highly romanti- cized, ahistorical terms: as primitive, essentially natural peoples (all wearing feathers, living in teepees, running around with bows and arrows, etc They know little if anything about issues of Native sovereignty, about the 1830 Indian...

..., literature is conceived of as a “mouthpiece of the nation,” an instructive means for inculcating national and historical aware- ness among peoples who are seeking, or who have attained and seek to justify, national sovereignty (Tziovas 1986: 6). National elites call upon writers to “chart the course...

... reason as a bulwark against religious dogma. Thus he sought to end the tyranny of princes, despots, and the dead weight of the past by overthrowing mindless custom and prejudice. Kant’s secular vision of the autonomous, rational subject underpinned his radical picture of the sovereignty...

..., including Gordon M. Sayre (2010), Daniel Williams (2006), Caleb Smith (2009), and Saidiya Hartman (1997), point to America’s reliance on forms of captivity as a means of “consolidating notions of individuality and national sovereignty” (Sayre 2010: 351). Indeed, the contradistinction between liberty...

... and gain national sovereignty. Clearly overlaps exist between these two disciplines, but the differences in focus and central concepts are also profound. Teachers in interdisciplinary courses, especially those that strive to bridge the social or political sciences and the humanities, face from...