In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.
This memoir tells the story of how a thoughtful critic has tried to contribute to the debate about indigenousness in academia..
She has been a consistent critic of the colonization of American Indians following the treaty-signing and reservation periods of development.
Cook-lynn frames her life\'s work as the inevitable struggle between the indigene and the colonist in a global history.
She discusses lecturing to professional audiences, activism addressing nonAcademic audiences, writing and publishing, tribal-Life activities, and teaching in an often hostile and, at times, corrupt milieu.
Cook-lynn explores how different opportunities and setbacks helped her become a leading voice in the emergence of Indian studies as an Academic discipline.
Drawing on her experience as a twentieth-century child raised in a Sisseton Santee Dakota family and under the jurisdictional policies that have created significant social isolation in American Indian reservation life, Cook-lynn tells the story of her unexpectedly privileged and almost comedic affirmative action rise to a professorship in a regional western university.
Having spent much of her Life illuminating the tragic irony of being an Indian in America, this provocative and often controversial writer narrates the story of her intellectual Life in the field of Indian studies.
In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
