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

About the author

Cheryl Walker

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Walker, WALKER, Cheryl Walker
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1997
• EAN: 9780822319443
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1944-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies