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Settler Common Sense : Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance.
In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (318 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452942063 1452942064 9781452949413 1452949417 9781306855945 1306855942 |