Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature /

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this interdisciplinary work, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Piatote, Beth H., 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Colección:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Temas:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.
Families in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Indian women in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs indiens d'Amérique > Histoire et critique.
Familles dans la littérature.
Relations interethniques dans la littérature.
Femmes des Peuples autochtones dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American fiction > Women authors.
American literature > Indian authors.
Canadian literature > Indian authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Entangled love: marriage, consent, and national belonging in works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison
  • Unnatural children: adoption and loss in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema and E. Pauline Johnson's "Catharine of the 'crow's nest"
  • Preoccupations: labor, land, and performance in Mourning Dove's Cogewea
  • The long arm of Lone Wolf: disciplinary paternalism and the problem of agency in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded
  • Conclusion.

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