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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela Calcaterra |
ISBN: | 9781469646930 1469646935 9781469646947 1469646943 |
OCLC Number: | 1029481974 |
Description: | xiii, 229 pages ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Angela Calcaterra. |
Abstract:
Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Contextualizing American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production.
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