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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Table des matières:
- Redefining the literary Indian
- Boundaries and paths: storied maps of the Virginia-North Carolina dividing line and its crossings
- Fire and chain: Samson Occom's letters, Anglo-American missions, and Haudenosaunee eloquence
- Generational objects: Mohegan nationhood, Indigenous correspondence, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney's unpopular aesthetic
- Trails: Pawnee and Osage orientations in Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edwin James
- Perspectives: taking a second look with Charles Alexander Eastman
- Dancing into the future.