Literary Indians : aesthetics and encounter in American literature to 1920 / Angela Calcaterra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calcaterra, Angela, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian influences.

American literature.

Indians in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Summary:

Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Contextualizing American writing in Indigenous space, 'Literary Indians' highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production.

Contents:

Redefining the literary Indian

Boundaries and paths: storied maps of the Virginia-North Carolina dividing line and its crossings

Fire and chain: Samson Occom's letters, Anglo-American missions, and Haudenosaunee eloquence

Generational objects: Mohegan nationhood, indigenous correspondence, and Lydia Huntley Sigourney's unpopular aesthetic

Trails: Pawnee and Osage orientations in Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edwin James

Perspectives: taking a second look with Charles Alexander Eastman

Dancing into the future.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908547-4-2

1-4696-4695-1

979-88-908547-5-9

1-4696-4696-X

OCLC:

1059450590