Frontiers of Historical Imagination. Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 by Kerwin Lee Klein

Author:Kerwin Lee Klein
Language: eng
Format: epub

The assimilationist drift of The Modern World-System carried it away from the interests of those seeking to show the importance of non-European actors. Wallerstein's introductory comment that "in general, in a deep conflict, the eyes of the downtrodden are more acute about the reality of the present" acquires a certain irony as one vainly scans the book for the views of the downtrodden. Given the narrative logic of the world system, native voices are "peripheral"; insofar as European processes of production and exchange govern frontier incorporation, the driving force of the story remains at the center. If one is looking for causal forces and if the cause of incorporation lies in the making of the world system, then the "frontier" itself demands less attention. Wallerstein's radical faith held his telling to a hopeful course, but if we strip the plot of eschatology and read it against the tradition of assimilationist tragedy, it can underwrite a brutal narrative of declension.

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