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"The Whole in Small Compass": D'Arcy McNickle's Social Vision in The Surrounded

Author(s) -

Matthew Herman

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

modern fiction studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.137

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1080-658X

pISSN - 0026-7724

DOI - 10.1353/mfs.2019.0017

Subject(s) - allotment , indigenous , sociology , reservation , race (biology) , compass , set (abstract data type) , history , anthropology , art history , humanities , art , cartography , political science , gender studies , geography , law , computer science , biology , programming language , ecology

This essay aims to renew interest in D'Arcy McNickle's allotment-era novel set on the Flathead Indian Reservation, The Surrounded (1936), by drawing attention to how McNickle's social vision theorizes culture, history, and race in ways that align with recent critical calls in the Native American humanities and the new indigenous transnationalisms for more socially inflected approaches to theory and method. This essay draws on tribal history sources to illustrate McNickle's contributions to the development of a contemporary Native American social theory.

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