Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature / Beth H. Piatote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piatote, Beth H., 1966-

Series:

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Indian authors.

Canadian literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Indians in literature.

Families in literature.

Citizenship in literature.

Ethnic relations in literature.

Indian women in literature.

Canadian literature--Indian authors.

Physical Description:

ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction

Entangled love: marriage, consent, and national belonging in works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison

Unnatural children: adoption and loss in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema and E. Pauline Johnson's "Catharine of the 'crow's nest"

Preoccupations: labor, land, and performance in Mourning Dove's Cogewea

The long arm of Lone Wolf: disciplinary paternalism and the problem of agency in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modern Language Association Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Honorable Mention, 2012-13

ISBN:

9780300171570

0300171579

OCLC:

785864987