Settler Common Sense [electronic resource] : Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rifkin, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in literature.

Indians in literature.

Queer theory.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Local Subjects:

Homosexuality in literature.

Indians in literature.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Cover; Introduction; 1 Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation; 2 Romancing the State of Nature Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables; 3 Loving Oneself Like a Nation Sovereign Self hood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden; 4 Dreaming of Urban Dispersion Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4206-4