“We're Gonna Capture Johnny Depp”: Making Kin with Cinematic Comanches

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Tahmahkera
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
First Century ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article analyzes Comanche elder LaDonna Harris's adoption of actor Johnny Depp as a response to the cultural politics of Disney's casting him as a Comanche Tonto in The Lone Ranger 2013. In addition to onscreen performers and characters like Depp's Tonto, in my reading “cinematic Comanches” also include offscreen cultural critics and social actors who, like Harris, maneuver through thorny layers of representing the indigenous. Focusing my inquiry on how Harris and other cinematic Comanches created opportunities to make kin with Depp, engage Disney, and expand the convoluted discourse on producing Comanche representation and cultural knowledge, I discuss Lone Ranger's hype and protest, Harris's reframing of the adoption as captivity, and post-captivity collaborations between Comanches, Depp, and Disney. I suggest that by recreating a traditional Comanche mode of kinship in the twenty-first century, Harris took Depp in as a son to honor his onscreen efforts, to express Comanche self-determination in kinship, and to increase the cultural capital of the Comanche Nation.

Self-determination in the Twenty-First Century

Ethnopolitics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Guibernau
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Twenty First Century

Reclaiming Félix Éboué Departmentalization and the Politics of Commemoration in Guyane, 1944–2012

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-150
Author(s):  
Sarah Wood
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Fourth Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Power ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter locates the figure of Félix Éboué in the cultural politics of commemoration in Guyane. It offers a cultural history of the production of memorials to Éboué in Guyane (his birthplace) and beyond, assessing the role of these markers of national power in the local landscape. The chapter focuses first on the monument located in central Cayenne, produced at the instigation of a local committee and inaugurated in 1957, towards the end of the Fourth Republic. It then addresses the revival of 'memory' of Éboué and the renewal of his presence in Guyane which occurred during the 2000s. Instigated in part by Christiane Taubira, this culminated in the renaming of the only international airport in the Département — the key point of arrival and departure between Paris and Cayenne. The chapter concludes by asking how the vision of Guyane asserted in the act of ‘remembering’ Éboué has changed or been adapted in the twenty-first century.

Self-Publishing

2020 ◽  
pp. 327-341
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Road ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Traditional Print ◽  
Print Format

In the twenty-first century, the barriers to authorship are lower than ever. Whether on blogs or on communal discussion forums, Facebook ‘walls’, or Twitter threads, anyone with access to the internet can fancy him or herself an author. The road to genuine cultural capital, however, still passes through the book, whether in its traditional print format or in the guise of ebooks consumed on Kindles, Nooks, and other electronic devices. Here too, though, a publishing revolution is underway. Thanks to services such as CreateSpace or iUniverse, it is cheaper than ever to self-publish a book, and, thanks to Amazon, it is easier to disseminate one. In this chapter, Jeffrey Di Leo shows how the results of this development are dramatic, both in a numeric sense and in a qualitative one.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-31
Author(s):  
Rachel Gregory Fox ◽  
Ahmad Qabaha
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Chronic Trauma ◽  
Twenty First Century

The introduction to the collection begins by explaining the rationale behind the project; that the collection is a response to how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and narration in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century, ongoing national loss, prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession, and the continued deterioration of the peace process. It outlines key historical and political events and theorises the critical paradigms central to the book. It addresses how, insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present.

Preface

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Sherryl Vint
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
First Century ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Race And Racialization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Critical Perspectives ◽  
Network Era

The Preface outlines the ways in which this volume’s essays on questions of race and racialization, sexuality and the politics of gender identification, and the new storytelling possibilities of television in the post-network era place Discovery in its larger Star Trek canon, show how it engages the history of this canon and reinvents the series through the new critical perspectives of twenty-first century cultural politics.

Working Through the Archive: Trauma and History in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Franco
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Moment

Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues is a metafictional novel that comments on literary history. In its three books, Dr. Gregory Revueltas battles a mysterious and ravaging plague, during the 1780s, 1980s, and mid–twenty-first century. In each book he leaves a legacy of writing for the next Gregory to read. By reading and writing this archive, or library of cultural knowledge, the final Gregory develops a historical consciousness that helps him see beyond his episteme's limited science and derive a cure for the recurring plague. His confronting the plague by reading his own writing both intimately and critically is an allegory for the efficacy of literature as a response to historical trauma. Gregory does not gain agency over history, but through the self-conscious reading of his archive he is able to place himself in a cultural trajectory otherwise inaccessible in each book's bracketed historical moment.

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