Literary Indians : aesthetics and encounter in American literature to 1920 /
Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's preexisting and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics help...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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Summary: | Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's preexisting and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781469646930 1469646935 9781469646947 1469646943 |