Indigenous Taiwan as Location of Native American and Indigenous Studies

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Estok and Murali Sivaramakrishnan <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol16/iss4/ http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol16/iss4/> Abstract: In her article "Indigenous Indigenous Taiwan as Location of Native American and Indigenous Studies" Studies Hsinya Huang uses Taiwan as a specific intellectual crossroads to examine,, both pedagogically and theoretically, transnational/trans-P Pacific flows, as well as transnational indigenous formations which take shape across national/international/local Americ American an Studies in this key moment of heightened U.S./Taiwan interaction in the Asia Asia-Pacific security zone. Huang argues that Taiwanese scholarship has helped reorient understandings of environment and ecocriticism and that it has provided significant impulses, especially in the fields of Native American and comparative indigenous studies. Moreover, Taiwan has contributed both in its own positioni positioning and in its academic outreach to the recent methodmetho ological turns away from US-American American exceptionalism by decentering ng the U.S. in global/transnational studies. Huang explores comparative indigeneity as experienced through the lens of Taiwan's Taiwan aboriginal people and offers a comparative perspective on the teaching of Native American literatures in TaiTa wan. Huang's study reflects and refracts the diverse dimensions of empire and resistance surrounding Taiwan as a site of methodological and pedagogical shifts. Hsinya Huang, "Indigenous Taiwan as Location of Native American and Indigenous Studies" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 16.4 (2014): <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol16/iss4/2> Thematic Issue New Work in Ecocriticism. Ed. Simon C. Estok and Murali Sivaramakrishnan page 2 of 9 Hsinya HUANG Indigenous Taiwan as Location of Native American and Indigenous Studies In the study at hand I examine how island imaginaries in Taiwan's Aboriginal literature contribute to the international dialog surrounding a conversion from land/continent to ocean/island in the study of Native American and Indigenous literature of the world. Western scholars have long made assumptions about the Indigenous world, often based on the nation-states in which different Indigenous peoples reside(d). For instance, the United States, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Canada were of primary importance as sites for locating Indigenous peoples in terms of historical comparisons, policy alignments and divergences, and networked global organizations. Latin American nations were next, followed by the Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido, and the Saami peoples of northern Scandinavia (see Deloria). Taiwanese Aboriginal groups, however, have been absent from Indigenous studies. Exploring Aboriginal Tau writer Syaman Rapongan's work, I focus on Indigenous formations forming across national and international boundaries in the study of transnational ethnic and Indigenous literature. Here I present an oceanic perspective to balance (...truncated)