Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms

Indian nation : Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms / Cheryl Walker.

Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how...

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Main Author: Walker, Cheryl, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1997.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
1800 - 1899
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Literature and anthropology > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Indians in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > Indian authors
Civilization > Indian influences
Ethnic relations in literature
Indians in literature
Indians of North America > Historiography
Indians of North America > Intellectual life
Literature and anthropology
Literature and society
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalism
Nationalism in literature
Politische Identität
Literatur
Nationalbewusstsein
United States > Civilization > Indian influences.
United States
Nordamerika
Indianer <Motiv>
Indianer.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The subject of America: the outsider inside
  • Writing Indians
  • The irony and mimicry of William Apess
  • Black Hawk and the moral force of transposition
  • The terms of George Copway's surrender
  • John Rollin Ridge and the law
  • Sarah Winnemucca's meditations: gender, race, and nation
  • Personifying America: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip"
  • Native American literature and nineteenth-century nationalisms
  • Appendix: "The red man's rebuke."

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