Unconventional Politics : Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy /

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"Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous people's existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted--the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dean, Janet, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wakefield, Sarah F.
Sigourney, L. H. > (Lydia Howard), > 1791-1865.
Eddleman, Ora V., > 1880-1968.
Callahan, S. Alice, > 1868-1894
Wakefield, Sarah F. > Criticism and interpretation.
Sigourney, L. H. > (Lydia Howard), > 1791-1865 > Criticism and interpretation.
Callahan, S. Alice, > 1868- > Criticism and interpretation.
Eddleman, Ora V., > 1880-1968 > Criticism and interpretation.
Callahan, S. Alice, > 1868-1894 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature.
Politics and literature.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Indian authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs indiens d'Amerique > Histoire et critique.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Government relations > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention
  • Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative
  • "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments
  • Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest
  • Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity
  • Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist indigenist reinvention.

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