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The corpse in the kitchen : enclosure, extraction, and the afterlives of the Black Hawk War /

"Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waterman, Adam John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The indifferent children of the earth : lead, enclosure, and the nocturnal occupations of the mineral undead
  • "Dressed in a strange fantasy" : The dialectics of seeing and the secret passages of desire
  • Constantly at their weaving work : historiography and the annihilation of the body
  • Things sweet to taste : corn and the thin gruel of racial capitalism
  • They prove in digestion sour : medicine, an obstancy of organs, and the appointments of the body
  • Conclusion: The afterlives of the Black Hawk War.