Through an Indian's Looking-Glass : A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot /
"The life of William Apess (1789-1839), a Pequot Indian, Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer, provides a lens through which to comprehend the complex dynamics of indigenous survival and resistance in the era of America's early nationhood. Apess's life intersects with mult...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Negative work
- The baskets copy our stories
- Birthright, bondage, and beyond
- The broad theater of the world
- "And they held all things in common"
- Becoming a son of the forest
- Indian preacher
- The bizarre theater of empire
- Conclusion. "He possessed the real traits of the Indian character"
- Appendix: Memorial of the Marshpee Indians, January 1834.