Hobomok

Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813511634
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1824, Hobomok is the story of an upper-class white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man.

Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hobomok written by Lydia Maria Child and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobomok is a novel by author and human rights campaigner Lydia Maria Child. It relates the marriage of a white American woman, Mary Conant, to a Native American husband and her attempt to raise their son in white society.

Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hobomok written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : RenŽe L. Bergland
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 161168871X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Uncanny written by RenŽe L. Bergland and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did Charles Brocken Brown, Washington Irving, Samuel Woodworth, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others who followed. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Native American ghosts figured prominently in speeches attributed to Chief Seattle, Black Elk, and Kicking Bear. Today, Stephen King and Leslie Marmon Silko plot best-selling novels around ghostly Indians and haunted Indian burial grounds. RenŽe L. Bergland argues that representing Indians as ghosts internalizes them as ghostly figures within the white imagination. Spectralization allows white Americans to construct a concept of American nationhood haunted by Native Americans, in which Indians become sharers in an idealized national imagination. However, the problems of spectralization are clear, since the discourse questions the very nationalism it constructs. Indians who are transformed into ghosts cannot be buried or evaded, and the specter of their forced disappearance haunts the American imagination. Indian ghosts personify national guilt and horror, as well as national pride and pleasure. Bergland tells the story of a terrifying and triumphant American aesthetic that repeatedly transforms horror into glory, national dishonor into national pride.

Author : Carolyn L. Karcher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321637
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Woman in the Republic written by Carolyn L. Karcher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.

Author : Celia R. Daileader
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848787
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth written by Celia R. Daileader and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of inter-racial sexual relations in Anglo-American literature from the English Renaissance to today.

Author : Nina Baym
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813518558
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism and American Literary History written by Nina Baym and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade Nina Baym has pioneered in the reexamination of American literature. She has led the way in questioning assumptions about American literary history, in critiquing the standard canon of works we read and teach, and in rediscovering lost texts by American women writers. Feminism and American Literary History collects fourteen of her most important essays published since 1980, which, combining feminist perspectives with original archival research, significantly revise standard American literary history. In Part I, "Rewriting Old American Literary History," the focus is on male writers. Essays range from close readings of individual works to ambitious critiques of the main paradigms by which scholars have conventionally linked disparate texts and authors in a narrative of nationalist literary history: the self-in-the-wilderness myth, the romance-novel distinction, the myth of New England origins. Part II, "Writing New American Literary History," studies examples of women's writing from the Revolution through the Civil War. Stressing much overtly public and political writing that has been overlooked even by feminist scholars, noting public and political themes in supposedly domestic works, the essays substantially modify and historicize the paradigm by which premodern American women's writing is currently understood. The contentious and influential essays in Part III, "Two Feminist Polemics," address feminist literary theory and pedagogy, advocating a pluralist practice as the basis for scholarship, criticism, and humane feminism. No one interested in American literature or in women's writing can afford to ignore Baym's revisionist work. Humorous and gracefully written, this book is enjoyable and indispensable.

Author : Dale M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669757
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing written by Dale M. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051839098
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making America / Making American Literature written by A. Robert Lee and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If 1776 heralds America's Birth of the Nation, so, too, it witnesses the rise of a matching, and overlapping, American Literature. For between the 1770s and the 1820s American writing moves on from the ancestral Puritanism of New England and Virginia - though not, as yet, into the American Renaissance so strikingly called for by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Even so, the concourse of voices which arise in this period, that is between (and including) Benjamin Franklin and James Fenimore Cooper, mark both a key transitional literary generation and yet one all too easily passed over in its own imaginative right. This collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays seeks to establish new bearings, a revision of one of the key political and literary eras in American culture. Not only are Franklin and Cooper themselves carefully re-evaluated in the making of America's new literary republic, but figures like Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Philip Frencau, William Cullen Bryant, the other Alexander Hamilton, and the playwrights Royall Tyler and William Dunlop. Other essays take a more inclusive perspective, whether American epistolary fiction, a first generation of American women-authored fiction, the public discourse of The Federalist Papers, the rise of the American periodical, or the founding African-American generation of Phillis Wheatley. What unites all the essays is the common assumption that the making of America was as much a matter of creating its national literature; as the making of American literature was a matter of shaping a national identity.

Author : Harry John Brown
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826262449
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injun Joe's Ghost written by Harry John Brown and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a "mixed-blood," and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native consciousness? In Injun Joe's Ghost, Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of "hybridity" from a biological to a cultural category. Brown traces the processes that once mandated the mixed-blood's exile as a grotesque or criminal outcast and that have recently brought about his ascendance as a cultural hero in contemporary Native American writing. Because the myth of the demise of the Indian and the ascendance of the Anglo-Saxon is traditionally tied to America's national idea, nationalist literature depicts Indian-white hybrids in images of degeneracy, atavism, madness, and even criminality. A competing tradition of popular writing, however, often created by mixed-blood writers themselves, contests these images of the outcast half-breed by envisioning "hybrid vigor," both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation. Injun Joe's Ghost focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression-era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twentieth-century "Native American Renaissance" from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, Injun Joe's Ghost will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies.