Indian Nation - Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms

"Indian Nation" offers thorough scholarship, good sense, and a clear style. The insightful overviews and fine brief accounts of Pearce, Slotkin, and Rogin are particularly valuable."--Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College

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Cheryl Walker

Zusammenfassung

Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in US history. This book examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Cheryl Walker, Walker, Cheryl Walker
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.1997
• EAN: 9780822319443
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1944-3
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 463 g
• Serien: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies