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1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Redefining the literary Indian -- Boundaries and paths: storied maps of the Virginia-North Carolina dividing line and its crossings -- Fire and chain: Samson Occom's letters, Anglo-American missions, and Haudenosaunee eloquence -- Generational objects: Mohegan nationhood, indigenous correspondence, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney's unpopular aesthetic -- Trails: Pawnee and Osage orientations in Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edwin James -- Perspectives: taking a second look with Charles Alexander Eastman -- Dancing into the future. |
Summary |
"Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American literature -- Indian influences.
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American literature. |
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Indians in literature.
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Indians in literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Calcaterra, Angela. Literary Indians. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469646930 (DLC) 2018016974 (OCoLC)1029481974 |
ISBN |
9781469646961 (electronic book) |
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146964696X (electronic book) |
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9781469646954 (electronic book) |
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1469646951 (electronic book) |
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9781469646930 |
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1469646935 |
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9781469646947 |
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1469646943 |
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