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Literary Indians : aesthetics and encounter in American literature to 1920 /
"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 aestheti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469646961 146964696X 9781469646954 1469646951 |