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Author Calcaterra, Angela, author.

Title Literary Indians : aesthetics and encounter in American literature to 1920 / Angela Calcaterra.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description 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.
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Subject American literature -- Indian influences.
American literature.
Indians in literature.
Indians in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Calcaterra, Angela. Literary Indians. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469646930 (DLC) 2018016974 (OCoLC)1029481974
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